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Breast self-exams are not useful, they can do more harm than good. That is the conclusion of the Cochrane Center.
http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003373/frame.html
The conclusions reach so far in that the Dutch Cancer Foundation is stopping all recommendations for self-exams, they will stop educating women on the technique and actually start a campaign explaining the downside of self-control (the unnecessary photos, biopties, scars, infection risk).
http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003373/frame.html
The conclusions reach so far in that the Dutch Cancer Foundation is stopping all recommendations for self-exams, they will stop educating women on the technique and actually start a campaign explaining the downside of self-control (the unnecessary photos, biopties, scars, infection risk).