Breastlight Helps You with Your Breast Examination Routine
All the Breast Cancer Awareness programs advise women to self-examine their breast on a regular basis, for instance once a month. However, it’s not always easy to do – not everyone knows exactly how to do it or can interpret what they feel. And some women simply have difficult breasts to examine by hand. The Breastlight is a new device that you can use at home to examine your breasts with your eyes rather than with your fingers.
Why It’s Clever and Easy
Women are advised to examine their breasts at regular intervals, for instance every month, probably more if their family has an elevated occurrence of breast cancers. But you have to learn how to do so, and some breast types are simply difficult to examine. And even those women who know how to do it can have moments where they do feel something during their breast self exam – but what then? Obviously, the next step is an appointment with the doctor, but between the detection and the appointment there are often one or more weeks of anxiety and stress, and a large percentage of those cases turn out to be innocent cysts. A quick Breastlight exam might give immediate reassurance.
The Breastlight is a new aid for breast examination. The device uses a few LEDs of a specific red color, emitting a powerful red light that allows you to see through your breast tissue, just like you can hold a flashlight underneath your fingertip to see through it. It’s not exactly a mammogram, but it’s a helpful tool that you can simply use at home on a regular basis. The good thing is that it doesn’t only allow you to see suspicious lumps – it also distinguishes between potentially dangerous lesions and innocent cysts. Tumor tissue is filled with blood vessels that absorb this particular color of red light and make the tumor show up as a dark cluster. Cysts are simply filled with fluid and don’t stand out in the red light.
Here’s an interview that clarifies things further:
Summary
- Breastlight helps you with breast self-examination
- Powerful red LEDs shine through your breast tissue
- Simply light: No X-rays, so it’s harmless
- See the difference between cysts and suspicious lumps, decreasing false positives
- Do it yourself breast cancer screening, but no replacement for a mammogram.
Tips
Clinical studies show that the device helps detect suspicious lumps, with a good detection rate for larger lesions, decreasing for smaller lesions. It’s by no means a replacement for a mammogram, but it is a useful extra tool for self-examination at home.
In case of doubt, talk with your general practitioner.
Where to buy
It’s available from the BreastLight company website.
Approx. price: $114 or £77.50.
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