Screening mammography is used to help find breast cancer early in women without any symptoms. If that is not an option, you can call Community Mental Health of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties. In the US alone there are 180,000 woman are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. If you are diagnosed, there is a 1 in 4 probability you will not survive. 50,000 woman die yearly from breast cancer.
Early detection can reduce the fatality risk.
Self exams are recommended monthly. You can't be certain there is no cancer by self exam alone. There is no better diagnostic tool than a yearly mammogram for detecting breast cancer.