Some of the women were trained to do breast self-exams.

If you are over age 20, consider doing a monthly breast self-exam.

Have you ever found a lump in a breast self-exam?

But studies suggest these breast self-exams play a very small role in finding cancer.

If you want to do breast self-exams, be sure to go over the technique with your doctor.

Sometimes a woman finds a lump during a breast self-exam.

A variety of methods and patterns are used in breast self-exams.

The first includes instructions on how to conduct a breast self-exam.

These changes may be found during a breast self-exam.

Doing a breast self-exam each month may help you know if an abnormal change occurs.

They therefore recommend that doctors stop teaching breast self-exam to women 40-69 years old.

Doctors should discuss the benefits and limitations of breast self-exams with their patients.

For comparison, the other women in the studies weren't taught or urged to do breast self-exams.

This is a good time to learn how to do a breast self-exam if you don't already know how.

While we waited, I looked at one of those plastic cards that explain how to do a breast self-exam.

Talk to your doctor about the pros and cons of breast self-exams.

If you decide to do breast self-exam, make sure to go over how to perform it with your health care provider.

But medical organizations don't all agree on the recommendation for breast self-exams, which is an option starting in their 20s.

That means doing routine breast self-exams and reporting anything suspicious to your doctor immediately.

What I tell women is that if you like to do a breast self-exam, because you're into knowing your body and feeling for things, go ahead.

If you are interested in doing breast self-exams, your doctor should go over how to perform it with you.

That will mean regular breast self-exams, office visits, and routine mammograms.