How much does a breast cancer screening cost

How much does a breast cancer test cost? The most convenient breast test is infrared breast examination: this test is often used as an initial screening test for breast diseases during physical examinations because it is fast and non-radioactive. It is especially suitable for pregnant and lactating women and costs about a few dozen yuan.

It uses the different absorption rates of infrared rays by normal tissue and diseased tissue to display different grayscale images such as transparent, dark and bright, thereby diagnosing breast diseases. Although it is not a professional examination for breast cancer, it can be used as a screening for breast lesions.

How much does a breast examination usually cost? Examination method:

With your upper body completely exposed, stand upright in front of a mirror, raise your hands and then lower them to compare and observe the breasts on both sides, to see if they are symmetrical, if their sizes have changed, if they are swollen or sunken, if their skin color has changed, if they have ulcers, and if the breasts on both sides are on the same level. When checking, put your fingers together, touch the breasts with the fingertips, and choose light, medium, or heavy strength for palpation. Remember not to pinch or grab the breasts with your hands. Generally, the left hand is used to check the right breast, and the right hand is used to check the left breast. When checking the axillary lymph nodes, put your hands at a flat angle, and do not lift or grab the axillary tissue or skin. If you find any abnormalities, you should seek medical attention in time.

The specific steps are as follows:

1. The correct way to examine and touch the breasts is to stretch out your palm flat with four fingers together, and use the most sensitive index finger, middle finger, and ring finger to gently touch the upper and outer lower, lower and inner upper areas of the breast in order, and finally the nipple and areola area in the middle of the breast.

During the examination, do not pinch the breast tissue with your fingers, otherwise you will mistake the pinched breast tissue for a lump.

2. Start from a sitting position. Any nipple inversion, skin depression, or abnormal shape of the structure is a clue to deep breast cancer. If the patient claps her hands above her head to contract her chest muscles, these signs will appear. When women are in a sitting position, it is easier to check the lymph nodes above and below the clavicle and under the armpits. Finally, palpation should be performed while sitting, using the fingers together to touch the area under the nipple.

3. Lie on your back and palpate a wider area. Place a pillow under the breast on the same side, raise the hand on the same side above the head so that the breast is evenly spread on the chest wall, so that the fingers can easily touch the deep part. Use the palm of the index finger, middle finger and ring finger instead of the fingertips for palpation. The palpation method should be to rotate horizontally from the nipple to the outside in a circular manner. It is especially important to check the breast that extends to the armpit.

4. Breast examination should first observe the development of the breasts. Check whether the breasts are symmetrical in size, whether the nipples are similar, whether they are at the same level, whether they are retracted and sunken; whether the nipples and areola are eroded, the color of the breast skin, whether there is edema and orange peel-like changes, whether there is redness and swelling and other inflammation, whether the superficial veins in the breast area are dilated, etc.