WATCH: How to perform a self-breast examination

As October is Breast Awareness Month, a nurse from public benefit organisation, Pink Drive, Merné Ogle explained how to perform a breast self-examination.

“Often women examine their breasts for cancer in the incorrect way. It is important to perform a monthly self-examination as this can lead to early detection of irregularities,” said Ogle.

When conducting a breast self-examination, contact your doctor for the following:

•  The size of a lump in the breast or armpit ranging from a marble to a tennis ball
•  An increase in the size of one breast
•  Swelling of glands in an armpit
•  Enlargement of one arm
• Dimpling of the skin around the breast
• Dimpling of or changes to the nipple
• Discharge from the nipple
• Lowering of one breast or nipple
• Orange peel appearance to the skin of breast and or nipple
• Retraction of one or both nipples
• Dry skin (eczema) of the nipple.

Details: Pink Drive Randburg 011 998 8022; www.pinkdrive.co.za