The best way is while lying down, about a week after your period every month. You should be intimately aware of your body and your breast. Your doctor, sites on the internet, and magazines can all show you the correct way to do breast self exams. AT THIS TIME . Even removing the breasts in these women will not prevent it because some breast tissue remains.
Men DO get breast cancer, although it is rare.
If you notice a lump that does not go away in your partner's breast tissue, make sure he sees a doctor. Small breasted women do not get breast cancer. Every woman is at risk regardless of breast size, race or socioeconomic status. In one year alone, the number of deaths in this country from breast cancer nearly equals the total number killed during the entire fourteen years of the VietNam War. This rate has almost doubled in the last thirty years.