Jakarta, While still in the month of breast cancer care, women are reminded of the importance of maintaining this feminine assets. Follow these steps to avoid the risk of breast cancer.
Despite implementing a healthy lifestyle early detection of breast cancer remains to be done for breast cancer can not be seen with the naked eye.
In addition to examining your own breasts to look for lumps or other changes to the mammography examination or mammogram can be more convincing female breast conditions.
Reporting from mlive, Monday (10/18/2010) American Cancer Society reminds women to take certain steps to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
The steps recommended are:
1. Women age 40 years or older should perform mammography and clinical breast examination every year.
2. Women aged 20-39 years should undergo a breast every 3 years.
3. Some women at high risk for breast cancer such as there are descendants should perform a more detailed examination by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
4. Women at high risk such as women who are married, taking hormonal contraception, use silicone or plastic surgery on her breasts should have MRI screening and mammography and clinical breast examination every year.
5. Women should maintain your weight, eating a healthy diet, physical activity 45-60 minutes 5 times a week, limit alcohol consumption as a way to reduce cancer risk.
Early detection is better, so if it is found there is potential for prevention of cancer can still be made lighter without having to cut the breast or lead to death.
Mammogram is not 100 percent successful detection of breast cancer because some cancers can not be detected by mammogram, but was detected by breast self-examination. On average, mammography will detect about 80 to 90 percent of breast cancers in women without symptoms.
But this current mammogram is the most effective way to detect cancer early. Thus it can identify breast cancer before physical symptoms of the cancer growing so easily treated.
Dr. Dr. Andhika Rachman, SpPD, when contacted detikHealth some time ago said that one way to detect breast cancer early is to do a BSE (Breast Self-Examination) conducted a week after menstruation.
A week after menstruation is very appropriate because at that time the hormones estrogen and progesterone are at low levels. Hormones estrogen and progesterone control and affect large or small breasts.
Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is to do the following:
1. Note the position of the breast with both hands above his head and both hands on the waist.
2. Raise your left hand above your head.
3. Use a flat surface of the finger to touch or squeeze the breast and make sure to touch all parts of the breast. Patterns that can be used to rotate the direction of movement, movement up and down direction or the direction of exit and entrance area of putting. Try using the same motion every month.
4. Press each nipple gently and notice whether there is liquid coming out.
5. Checking the area between the breast and armpit and breast and sternum while lying down.
6. Repeating all the steps to the right breast.
If someone has a disorder in her breast, it will display the following signs:
1. If the breasts are squeezed, it will be a milky white discharge that is odorless but no pain arising.
2. Breast skin looks like orange peel, which is contracted by skin pores are rather prominent.
3. There are bumps that are always found when examining the area around the breast or under the armpit.
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