She recommended locking the bedroom or bathroom door to ensure complete privacy. Bolanos described what to feel for and how to distinguish a potential malignancy from milk glands and cysts. The lump in the mini-breast was round and hard. Round, smooth lumps are usually not dangerous. If painful, it is probably a cyst.
Cancers typically have irregular shapes and grow without pain.
They may make the skin look like orange peel. That s what a cancerous growth is like.