Our takeaway: See your doctor, keep aware of your health( breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women! ), but don’t fret too much if you forget your monthly self breast exam.

Breast self-awareness focuses on having a sense of what is normal for your breasts so that you can tell if there are changes—even small changes—and report them to your ob-gyn or other health care professional.

ACOG, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, continues to recommend self breast awareness , as between 40-70% of breast cancer cases are noticed by patients:

Interactive Graphic Instructions: Slide or Hover the blue line on the chart to change the numbers below. Lines correspond to calculated values, areas correspond to margins of error.

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