Breast Cancer Informative Speech

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Before to start freaking out, you should have to conduct a physical self examination first to know if the pain you are experiencing right now is associated with cancer. Anyway, according to what I've read online, there are actually a ten cancer symptoms that women should really watch our for. They stated the no. 1 symptom is the changes in the breast. You can determine if you have a breast cancer through the changes in the breast. If you notice that one or both of your nipples is scaly or begins to flake, then you could have what is called Paget’s disease of the nipple. This is often connected to cancer 95% of the time. Milky or bloody nipple discharge is also something that needs to be checked by a medical professional. Another thing that

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