Whats an aide to detect breast cancer in its earlier stages?

BSE,CBE,MMG: The triumvirate of screening is breast self exam, annual clinical breast exam, and annual screening mammography after age 40. For high risk patients (i.e. Family history, prior findings of atypic, etc) more intensive screening with more frequent clinical surveillance including being followed by a breast specialist/surgeon and other imaging (i.e. Mri) may be indicated.

Biopsy.: Quite often the results of noninvasive examination, mammography and additional tests performed in special circumstances, like ultrasound or MRI are enough to perform excisional biopsy as the definitive diagnostic and curative method. Biopsy in these cases would get the entire cancer which can be studied under a microscope.

Screening: Proper screening with self breast exams looking for new lumps, breast exams by your physician looking for skin or nipple chanes as well as masses or lymph nodes, and mammogram and ultrasound if needed are the best ways to pick up early stage breast cancer before it causes any symptoms. Once advanced it can cause many different symptoms throughout the body.