Proactive self-care stands as an indispensable pillar of overall well-being. Among the myriad health concerns, breast cancer takes center stage, underscoring the critical necessity of routine ...

For decades, doctors and advocacy groups have urged women to examine their breasts every month for unusual lumps. Now many of those same experts have a different message: Never mind. Earlier this ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and cancer awareness starts with general breast awareness. Dr. Julie Nangia, medical director of breast oncology at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer ...

It's a tough call, deciding which topics gets readers most incensed. Evolution always makes a strong run for the title, but I have to go with something else: readers get really, really upset when you ...

Monthly self-checks can be a helpful way to recognize early symptoms of conditions such as cancer. People may benefit from checking body parts such as the breasts, chest, testicles, and skin monthly.

There's a timeless truth to the old aphorism, "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." Although that might be true for many things in life, when it comes to breast self-exams, ...

A breast self-exam is something that anyone can perform in the privacy of their own home to check to see if there are any abnormalities in their body. Helen Nichter reminds us that all bodies are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Getty Images Breast self-exam, or regularly examining your breasts on your own, can be an important way to find ...

Mammograms don’t catch everything. “It’s well established in the medical community that mammograms miss about 10 — 15 percent of palpable masses in the breast,” says Northwestern Medicine Breast ...

What's a woman to believe? Headlines in October hailed a Chinese study which concluded that breast cancer mortality rates are identical for women who do monthly breast self-exams and those who don't.