How can I prevent the breast cancer?

It’s normal that the breasts present changes during the life, it can be affected by menstrual cycles, age, pregnancies, contraception methods, menopause or hormonal treatments. Many women can mistake some changes for temporary alterations and not see the importance it deserves and that is why they do not go to the doctor, this greatly complicates the detection of possible breast cancer.

Before, it was believed that breast cancer could only develop in women with advanced age, nowadays there are many young women with the disease, this one is more aggressive and if it isn’t diagnosed at time within a month, may have been compromised the breast tissue.

Breast self-exam represents a necessary tool in the life women, with this one we can identify abnormalities in their breasts and it allows you act immediately before possible alterations.

The objective of breast exploration is to identify early some symptoms which it can warn that something is not going well and they can visit the doctor.

Women can realize this one during any storage of their lives even in the first menstrual cycle.

The correct way to do it, is standing and lying down.

First step

Stand up in front of the mirror, you must see it like a clock, make circular movements with different types of pressure with the tips of the 3 middle fingers from the nipple outwards, make it with the right hand, then exchange hands, repeat this step.

Second step

Lying down, put one hand under the head; you can make the same technique as the first step with your right hand and then your left hand. It’s important that you always observe in the mirror the symmetry or physical changes that the breast may present.

Third step

With your thumb and forefinger, touch the nipple. Press to discard the output of secretions, and it may even be blood.

Fourth and last step

Feel the armpit. Do it with the fingers that you used in the first step but with a deep pressure, it is part from the breast and for this reason should be examined in the same way. In many occasions is where is occasioned malignant tumors.

In many cases the signs and symptoms can be presented in an advance stage of the cancer, for this reason women must go to medical check-ups, thus avoid this enemy take the advance of win the battle.

You don’t feel sorry for touch yourself, learn to know your body, practicing the prevention, we’re fighting against this enemy that lurk without consider social status, economic situation, neither race, nor gender, nor age; besides by taking care us we’re practicing the love for ourselves.

Let’s put the pink ribbon and we have to become aware, let’s say enough and that the number of positive diagnoses and deaths goes down, everything is in our hands.

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