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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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I found a tin of vaseline.....
I've been meaning to post for a few days, but my question makes me sound really dim ... and I've been searching on the net for an answer and can't find one so here goes .... Given that our boobs are a bit gristly and uneven inside anyway, how do we know when we feel a lump?
Oh god, I'm 35 and I don't know the answer to that question. Sorry! If anyone can direct me to a good resource online that would be great! Should add that I live abroad and am still working out how to access the local health service, otherwise I!d visit my local GP.
thats a really good point
click on the Cancer UK banner at the top of this page and go to the Breast Cancer Awareness page - I'm sure there will be info or links there
theres a page 'breast aware'
just cclick on Quick Navigation and go to Breast Cancer Month and there some fairly clear info
hope this helps
just to even out the health promo info!
Just picked up this thread. Great advice for everybody Cath...inspirational as ever.
BTW, I will post the book over weekend so you should get it next Weds.
Very interested in the suggestion of Jane Tomlinson to win the Helen Rollason award. What a brilliant idea!!! How about starting a proper URWFRC campaign for Jane to win?
DW
Will also nag Mr B about checking his bits too!
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On the eleventh day of October ...
As the newly elected women's mascot or whatever for the forum this week, and unofficial mouthpiece of the NHS, please indulge me while I pontificate on this topic.
GET TO KNOW YOUR BREASTS, GIRLS!
It's important not just to look for lumps but to know, as a baseline, what is "normal" for you - lots of women are naturally a bit nodular here and there, and any change, or anything that definitely feels like an isolated lump, or a previously "outie" nipple becoming an "innie, or discharge from the nipple, or the skin feeling a bit hard and tethered, or ANYTHING that you're not sure about - SEE YOUR DOCTOR OR PRACTICE NURSE. We know breasts are important. You're not wasting our time.
The mammography screening programme picks up about one breast cancer case a year in my practice. I probably see at least four women a month with newly discovered breast symptoms - of these, one will be normal when I check her, two will need investigation but will have benign lumps, and one will have cancer. And breast cancer CAN be treated effectively if picked up early.
So know what's normal for you and if you find anything abnormal take it to the next available surgery.
Cheers, V-rap.
I havent been out yet so I cant tell you what happened on the 11th day
V-rap - cheers great info -
I put a piccy of Jane Tomlinson finishing the GNR on my fridge door - to inspire me when I'm feeling like whats in the fridge will do me more good than my daily 30 mins.
Remember to have a check-over everywhere on your bods.. my cousin Steve found just a small lump on his neck that didn't go away. He wasn't ill at all and was in no pain whatsoever. He is now in hospital fighting cancer and had a major operation yesterday. So it's not just our boobs we need to check - we really need to know our entire bodies and to know when something isn't right. Get checking!
Michelle x
Michelle -- (am going tolog off now honest!) You're so right about keeping a check on everything AND making sure we take steps to look after ourselves, properly! I made sure the Mr got my new evangelical message by patting his (only little) pot belly and asked him did he think he should do something about it
Michelle xxxx
Ive got a gym ball but I wish it was a spacehoppa!
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(surely noone is going to dislodge this at 23.37 on a saturday nite!
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