There are new weapons in the fight against breast cancer. Know them. Sign up for the WebMD Breast Cancer newsletter and stay informed.‘We’ve shown that you can reduce the risk of death from breast cancer, even in a screening program, but the trick is that there must be a breast exam.’
Many researchers have questioned whether the breast examination performed in ordinary medical offices’ ‘are as good as those conducted in the course of medical studies a particular piece of good news in this study, Bobo said, is that. – Contrary to what some studies earlier reported – the examinations conducted medical community ‘were equally good at finding breast lumps.
In addition, breast exams collected some types of cancer that were missed by mammography, and in addition, the cancer was not found every time a test has shown an anomaly, he said. ‘It can help women to resist abnormal tests of panic until they can get more tests,’ said Bobo, a CDC epidemiologist in Atlanta.
A new study shows that low-tech, manual breast exam is only as good as mammography, and can also detect very small tumors. Although some question whether it is useful to have a breast exam by a doctor when it can be detected with an X-ray, this study shows that doctors may have the right contact.
Bobo says: ‘I believe that Dr. Baines is true that we teach doctors to look for signs of breast cancer in place, but I think that many doctors looking for more subtle signs of the disease as well.’
But this new study shows that doctors should continue because breast examinations on their patients, and why women should continue to conduct self-examinations at home.
‘One of my problems with both the clinical breast examination and breast self-examination is to teach people to look for signs of breast cancer in advanced stages, such as dimpling of the skin, large pieces, or changes around Nipple, ‘Baines WebMD.’ breast cancer How can we detect if we tried the subtle signs of asymmetry – Who, when the breasts do not seem the same when compared to each other in our studies, we found these subtle signs can be found cancer early. ‘To be continued .
‘I think it’s really a study of a good news for women,’ says Janet Bobo, Ph.D., author of the study, which examined the medical records of more than 700,000 women who had breast examinations. was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Cornelia Baines, MD, who wrote an editorial commenting on the study, asked if doctors should not even do with the breast exams on their patients. Since research has shown that mammography in women aged 40 and over can reduce breast cancer mortality by 30-40percent, ‘physicians must surely ask,’ why waste time with your fingers? ‘She writes. Baines is a professor in the department of public health sciences at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Baines believes that part of learning to do a self breast examination is to have the opportunity to discuss the technique with a doctor.
‘About 5percent of cancers detected in our study were not detected by mammography but were detected by clinical breast exam,’ said Bobo.
‘Although our study does not prove that to find these tumors reduce deaths associated with breast cancer, it is suggested that women should always be clinical breast exam.’ The study also showed that the tests can detect breast cancer, very little thought to be too small to be felt, and that up to 16percent of breast cancers are not found without a revision of the breast.