Your Guide to Self-Exams

Breast self-exams are an important part of your breast health.

Forty percent of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by self exams. This means, following the recommendation of once a month self-examinations, along with mammograms, which detect lumps before you can feel them, self-exams are the best way to get to know your own body.

The National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. provides a step-by-step guide to the breast self-exam. Following the guide below makes self exams simpler and keeps you familiar with your own body.

Screenings from Invision Sally Jobe are an important part of your breast health along with monthly self-exams. Call us to find out when your next exam is due.

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