For all the ladies out there, if you are in your late thirties please go to your family doctor and ask for a baseline mammogram. Doctors may not find anything and can use it as a base from which to judge your future mammograms. Don't forget to do the self-exam, but I think it's better to find something on an x-ray when it's tiny. I went for my first mammogram last January and they found micro-calcifications in my right breast, and I then went for a six-month follow-up and luckily nothing had changed, but I still need to go every six months. It doesn't hurt that much -- just a bit uncomfortable -- and the key is to discover a problem early enough that it can be treated and managed. Ladies, you have the power to ask/demand a mammogram, so get yourself to a doctor and ask for a mammogram.
Check webmd.com for breast cancer symptoms.
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