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Symptoms of breast cancer

It's important that you know your breasts well so that you can notice a change that will help you discover an early-stage anomaly. It is also good to know if there is an increased risk. Periodic self-examination (every month on a fixed day) is not necessarily required.

In order to recognize what suspicious changes are, it is important that you know how your breasts feel normal. For example, your one breast may always be slightly bigger than the other. Whether you have been withdrawn from one or both nipples from birth to you. It is common for most women to feel bumpy beneath your skin. That is caused by the glandular tissue in the breast. 

Symptoms of breast cancer

Feeling your breasts different from what you are used to and seeing or feeling one of the following symptoms, it is wise to consult your doctor immediately: 
  • An unusual nod in the chest
  • Peeling and redness of the nipple or pelvis in the chest
  • Recently retracted nipple
  • Strict (tje) to the nipple
  • Moisture from the nipple (bloody, aqueous, greenish or milky)
  • Warm feeling chest with red discoloration of the skin
  • A bad healing place
  • Painful, different feeling spot in the chest
  • Swelling in the armpit

Nodule

A nodule is a thickening in the chest that feels different from the bumps that you can feel normal.
  • A nodule means put up glandular tissue or a cavity filled with fluid (cyst).
  • Lumps can feel very different. Often it is a spot in the chest that is somewhat stiffer or harder than the rest of the tissue. Sometimes it's bullet and slides away under the fingers like knives. Sometimes it feels like a thickened disk or a string behind the nipple. Usually, nodules do not hurt and are benign. But you should not take a risk and let you examine your doctor as soon as possible if you feel a nod.

Take these changes seriously and go to the GP as soon as possible. Even though most breast disorders are innocent and benign, they can also be caused by cancer. Thus, pain in itself is not a sign that you have a distraction in the chest. However, if your chest continues to be painful, talk to your doctor. 

Your GP looks and feels your breasts carefully. He also investigates whether there are raised lymph nodes in your armpits or in your throat. If necessary, he advises you to further investigate. Or he will immediately refer you to a doctor or a momapoli. A maternity clinic is an outpatient clinic specifically for patients with suspected breast cancer. A large number of hospitals has a mammapoli. 

Scientific research in large groups of women shows that monthly self-study does not increase the risk of survival of breast cancer.
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