So, you're on your second strip coming up. We want to pay special attention to areas underneath the nipple and we want to pay special attention to areas of previous scars. And as, if I should find a lump, what would the chances be that that lump would be malignant or benign. I mean, do we panic right away. We are here to actually feel and understand what our own breasts feel like.
Every woman has some amount of lumpy bumpy feel to their breasts.
And that's normal. What we want to do is become familiar with what our normal breasts feel like, so that on a monthly basis if we find something that wasn't there before, we can bring it to our doctor's attention. Usually cancerous masses are rock hard and fixed. You can't move them. The fibrocystic lumps that we all get and it fluctuates during our periods usually are slightly painful and are almost movable.