According to Dr. Keith of the Sun paper, this is wrong advice! This will come as a shock to many women and pretty very confusing to learn that we have been fed the wrong information's.
The truth about this matter according to this doctor is regular self -examinations does not work. In fact , it can cause you more harm than good and he has stopped recommending breast self -examinations.
Some very smart Alecs carried out an experiment and found out that those who have regular breast self -examinations and those who did not made no difference to the death rate in both groups.
Whether you checked regularly or don't , those who were unlucky to catch that disease were just unfortunate. Those who checked regularly suffered unnecessary worries when they discovered some hard lumps and went for biopsies and found them non malignant.
Even after some regular breast self- examinations , they could not detect the cancer and they creeped in until it was too late.Breast cancer is a deadly disease and we have to be on guard to check them for any early warning signs.
Most of us are not doctors and breast can be lumpy at times. We may detect some small lumps and worry about them when it is natural to have some lumps . Some are just tumours , non malignant and are harmless .
If we did not have regular self examinations we may not even know of their existence and continue our life in a blissful state. If the lumps increase in size then we should be worried about it and have it checked by those professional doctors.
If we did not have regular self examinations we may not even know of their existence and continue our life in a blissful state. If the lumps increase in size then we should be worried about it and have it checked by those professional doctors.
He is not the only doctor who said that regular breast examination is dead, in 2003 a leading woman expert also wrote the same thing in the British Medical Journal .
Does it mean that you don't have to examine your breast regularly anymore and just leave everything to nature ?
You don't have to check regularly or religiously week in and week out but you only need to be aware of any changes , sensations or pain in your breast and if you think you have a problem , then you should go and see your doctor. Heed your body signals and don't go looking for lumps when there are none or when they are harmless.
If you want to check regularly by all means and if you don't want to , it is your prerogative.
Eat a healthy diet and exercise to keep fit and healthy. If you still can get cancer, then it is fated..
Eat a healthy diet and exercise to keep fit and healthy. If you still can get cancer, then it is fated..
Reference and thanks to :-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/drkeithhopcroft/article1730354.ece
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