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Woman, Are You still Touching Yourself for Cancer?

LifestyleHealth, Sports & Fitness

14 months ago

Women above 40 are encouraged to manually detect possible tumours in their breasts (and other parts of their bodies), by touching and feeling themselves in shower or in bed.

I disagree.  As someone coming from a high-risk cancer group (my mum had 2 cancer operations in 2 different 'places'), I don't need to wait till 40.

Also, I am bad about "manually detecting" possible abnormal growths.  In this case, my fingers and brain don't seem to coordinate too well!  lol

A friend suggested that I need to do it (touch myself) everyday to familiarise myself with what's normal and what may be an increased growth or tumour.

I tried.  Total flop!  Images of Twitter's Fail Whale comes to mind!  lol
 
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