Feel your boobies

That’s what an illustration on the back cover of this week’s Medical Examiner encourages. Trouble is, doctors say many women don’t know how to properly and effectively perform a breast self-exam. In this video, a doctor takes a patient through the steps of both how to do BSE correctly, as well as when it should be done. It’s different for …

Breast self-exams

This is the first of a number of instructional posts that will appear on ye olde M.E. blog this month. As she says, despite all the attention given to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many women still don’t know how to properly do a breast self exam. Breast Self-Exam Tips

Buddy Check

October may be over – and with it another wildly successful year for Breast Cancer Awareness – but unfortunately that doesn’t mean breast cancer goes away until next fall. It’s still here in November and in the daily lives of millions of women (and quite a few men). One of the strategies used to combat this disease is early detection, …