woman shares "trick" to finding breast cancer docs never instructed her ... - CBS information

Hayley Browning shares a photograph of herself in a health center costume after she found her breast cancer while lying down.

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Hayley Browning has all the time adopted her doctor's tips when it came to routinely checking herself for lumps — she'd do a month-to-month sign in the shower and verify her breasts within the reflect every now and then. but now the young girl is sharing a "trick" she says she turned into on no account instructed that ended in the discovery of her breast melanoma.

On World melanoma Day, three weeks after the younger girl from Chelmsford, Essex in the united kingdom turned into diagnosed, she took to fb to share her story in hopes of helping different women like herself.

Hayley Browning's fb submit about her breast melanoma diagnosis went viral.

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"I may handiest consider the lump at the same time as mendacity down and it absolutely disappeared standing up," Browning defined in a facebook publish, which has considering long past viral with more than 150,000 shares and counting. "Most sites tell you to check for lumps within the bathe but when I had adopted this counsel, the lump may also have grown too tremendous to be treatable. not even the surgeon may suppose my lump when i was standing up."

thousands of women from across the globe thanked Browning for posting her story, and began swapping warning indications of their own.

"In 1997, I found my first lump, standing in front of the mirror, noticed a large shadow," one facebook consumer wrote.

"I'm well-nigh 5 years clear. Mine was a thickening of the skin around the nipple," a further commented.

"that's how I discovered mine," a girl informed Browning.

Browning became overwhelmed with the response to her story, and pointed out she hopes it is going to inspire greater women to determine for lumps mendacity down as well as standing up.

"Wow! you are all comprehensive superstars for sharing my publish," she wrote on Wednesday. "i'm so overwhelmed with your entire help. collectively, we have reached so many americans and have with a bit of luck helped locate extra."

Breastcancer.org recommends following five steps whereas performing a breast self-examination, together with searching in the mirror, feeling your breasts lying down and while you're standing or sitting.

"Many ladies discover that the simplest way to consider their breasts is when their dermis is wet and slippery, so that they like to do that step in the shower," the web page says.

but Browning stresses ladies shouldn't limit their self-checks to the bathe.

When mendacity down, the breast tissue spreads out evenly alongside the chest wall, which makes it less demanding to establish an abnormality, the country wide Breast melanoma groundwork explained in an internet post on the way to operate self tests.

Browning hopes people will use loads of easy methods to investigate for lumps.

"As I think about my long journey forward and the chemotherapy i'll undertake, I want to attain as many people with this message and assist locate more," she observed.

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