Breast Lump
Alternate Names : Breast Mass
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Call your Health Care Provider if
Call your doctor if:
- You find a new breast lump during your monthly self-exam.
- You have bruising on your breast but did not experience any injury or trauma.
- You have nipple discharge, especially if bloody or pinkish (blood tinged).
- The skin on your breast appears dimpled or wrinkled (like the peel of an orange).
- Your nipple is inverted (turned inward) but normally is not inverted.
- You are a woman, 20 years or older, and do not know how -- or need help to learn how -- to perform a self-breast examination.
- You are a woman 40-50 years old and have not had a mammogram in the past two years, or over age 50 and have not had a mammogram in the past year.
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