Author name: Butch Phelps

We all know how important it is to do monthly breast exams, but why do you need to do them? When you do a breast exam, you are thoroughly checking your breasts (through massage) for any abnormalities that could be cancer. In fact, this is one of the key ways breast cancer is diagnosed — with this type of self-diagnosis — and as many as a quarter of a million women every year will be diagnosed with breast cancer. As many as 14,000 of those women will die from it. If breast cancer is found in a very late stage, the prognosis is much less positive and treatment much more invasive and painful. By utilizing a monthly breast exam, you can find your breast cancer early enough that you can treat it quickly and easily, and even effect cure.