How to Perform a Breast Self-Exam

In addition to receiving an annual mammogram, adult women should perform a monthly breast self-exam to look for any new lumps or irregularities in their breast tissue. But do you know how to perform a breast self-exam? Watch for 3 simple tips!

[@Sarappreciates]

Thank you so much for making this! 💗 We need to look out for each other. I'm stage 4, but there wasn't any noticeable lump! It was just a really insignificant (easily ignored) pain that came and went for about a year when it started to be there more often than not. Still, it was barely-there pain, not severe at any point. Also I had so much fatigue that it felt a lot like some of my darkest moments during my years of experience with depression, not something I'd expect cancer to feel like!
FYI: Did you know that sometimes cancer is misdiagnosed as depression? Symptoms of both diseases can be quite similar, and both have symptoms that are known to feed into each other. Hank Green (one of RUclips's best science communicators) did a video about it while he was in treatment for lymphoma, and it was kinda validating for me.
TLDR; It can be very healing to understand how our emotional state (brain chemistry) connects to the rest of our bodies.

[@jeoneunthatbitch3897]

my whole breasts are just bags of lumps? how in the world would i know the difference between a dangerous lump and all the surrounding tissue?

[@nbcf]

Hi there and thank you for your question. You can learn more about breast lumps on our website: www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-lump/