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Male Speaker: Today's show is all about learning what your body is trying to tell you, but the truth is, sometimes you have to look and a good example of this, Lisa, yes.
Dr. Lisa: Self-breast exams. They are so, so important. This is an example here of the different sizes of masses that women will find on self-breast exam and this is the 21 mm size, I want you to feel that because that is what a woman, an average woman, will feel a breast mass in her breast.
Male Speaker: And you would have to be paying attention to detect this.
Dr. Lisa: Right, to do your self-breast exams and you know, we teach woman how to do it. We tell you to go up and down or round like a target, but really it is all about knowing your body. It is so, so very important to do your self-breast exam because if you don't, you may miss something. I cannot tell you as a gynecologist, how many women have found their own breast masses by doing their self-breast exam and then they come in. Because we do, you know, as clinicians, we do it only once a year. So the surveillance that they do every month, you know, about five days after their period, is huge. You can actually save lives and what they have said in the past about may be you should not do it is because sometimes you may find most of these are benign or most of the time you are going to hope that they are benign, but if you miss the ones that are benign, you are going to want to have done your exam so that you will catch the ones that are cancerous.
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