Touch. Use the pads of your three middle fingers. Begin in your armpit, using small circular motions with varying degrees of pressure, to examine your entire breast area. learn about your breast cancer risks. love your body. commit to regular preventive health screenings. commit: Breast Self-Examination BSE Grid. Move your fingers up and down over your entire breast area, from the collar- bone to below the breast and side-to-side, from your breast bone to your arm pit. 1. Stand in front of a mirror. Examine your breasts with hands at sides, then clasped overhead. Look for changes in size or shape, or nipple changes. Squeeze both nipples between thumb and forefinger to check for discharge. Then press hands on hips and push elbows forward to tighten chest muscles. Look for dimpling, puckering, redness, scaliness or changes in shape, size, texture or skin color. 2. In the shower. BSE is easier when your skin is wet and soapy. In the shower, raise your right arm above your head. Think about the BSE grid as you cover your entire breast area, using the “touch tech- nique” described above. Repeat for left side. 3. Lying down. Lying down helps to flatten the breast, making it easier to examine the breast tissue by pressing it firmly against the chest wall. Place a pillow under right shoulder. Begin at the armpit and make a series of three small circles. Use light, medium and deep pressure. Think about the BSE grid pattern and begin again. Cover your entire breast area. Repeat for left side. Visit www.healthywomen.org for more information Breast self-examination (BSE), performed at the same time each month, takes little time, costs nothing and can help you be aware of how your breasts normally look and feel. Contact your health care professional if you discover any changes. Breast self- exams are not a substitute for regular breast exams by a health care professional or for screening mammograms. The Learn. Love. Commit. Campaign is supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly, & Co.
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Touch. Use the padsof your three middlefingers. Begin in yourarmpit, using smallcircular motions withvarying degrees ofpressure, to examineyour entire breast area.
learn about yourbreast cancer risks.
love your body.commit to regular
preventivehealth screenings.
commit: Breast Self-Examination
BSE Grid. Move yourfingers up and downover your entire breastarea, from the collar-bone to below thebreast and side-to-side,from your breast boneto your arm pit.
1. Stand in front of a mirror. Examine your breasts with hands at sides, thenclasped overhead. Look for changes in size or shape, or nipple changes. Squeeze bothnipples between thumb and forefinger to check for discharge. Then press hands on hipsand push elbows forward to tighten chest muscles. Look for dimpling, puckering, redness,scaliness or changes in shape, size, texture or skin color.
2. In theshower. BSEis easier whenyour skin is wetand soapy. Inthe shower, raiseyour right arm
above your head. Think about theBSE grid as you cover your entirebreast area, using the “touch tech-nique” described above. Repeat forleft side.
3. Lying down.Lying down helpsto flatten the breast,making it easier toexamine the breasttissue by pressing itfirmly against the chest wall. Place a pillowunder right shoulder. Begin at the armpit andmake a series of three small circles. Use light,medium and deep pressure. Think about the BSEgrid pattern and begin again. Cover your entirebreast area. Repeat for left side.
Visit www.healthywomen.org for more information
Breast self-examination(BSE), performed at thesame time each month, takeslittle time, costs nothing andcan help you be aware ofhow your breasts normallylook and feel.
Contact your health careprofessional if you discoverany changes. Breast self-exams are not a substitutefor regular breast exams bya health care professional orfor screening mammograms.
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