Six steps of breast self-examination

Understanding Your Breasts

Many Women fail to perform breast self-examination because they don’t know how their breasts should feel and how to recognize changes. Normal breast tissue often feels nodular (lumpy) and varies in consistency from woman to woman.

Even within each individual woman, the texture of breast tissue varies at different times in her menstrual cycle, and from time to time during her life. Understanding the normal anatomy of the breast will help you to become familiar with the normal feel of your own breast, and to gain confidence in your ability to do BSE correctly; you will be able to distinguish between suspicious new lumps and ordinary breast tissue that sometimes feels lumpy.

Interior Structure: Your breasts lie on top of, and are loosely attached to, the pectoral muscles on the front of your chest.

The breasts move with these muscles which extend from the breastbone up to the collarbone and into the armpit, and do the major work of your upper arm and shoulder. Except for tiny ones in the nipples, there are no muscles within your breast; th

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