Speaker 1: Hey, today, we're doing it on the first of every month.
Speaker 2: Ladies.
Speaker 1: It's the breast check day here at the pickup and
Speaker 1: we want to get people to fill their boobs. Fell
Speaker 1: your boobies, have a little squeeze around, feel if anything's
Speaker 1: abnormal or feeling not right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen to this.
Speaker 2: Three thousand, three hundred Australians will die this year. Nine
Speaker 2: Australians die every day and fifty eight Australians are diagnosed
Speaker 2: every single day.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 2: Those stats are astronomical. We're lucky enough to be speaking
Speaker 2: to Professor Sarah Lewis. Sarah is the Dean of Health
Speaker 2: Sciences at Western Sydney University.
Speaker 3: She's a career academic.
Speaker 2: She's doing some incredible research around breast cancer.
Speaker 3: Sarah.
Speaker 4: Welcome, Hi, Hi, good afternoon, guys.
Speaker 3: Hi Sarah.
Speaker 5: Look, I think there's so much information out there for
Speaker 5: people who know that we should check our breasts, like
Speaker 5: check your breast, check your breast in the first of
Speaker 5: the month. But what does that actually look like and
Speaker 5: for someone who maybe has never done it before, Like
Speaker 5: how would someone conduct a self examination and know what
Speaker 5: it is that they're feeling for.
Speaker 4: Look, I think chief that day of your month understand
Speaker 4: that your breaths are going to change a little bit
Speaker 4: according to your hormonal cycle, and so choose a time
Speaker 4: that's away from your period, and then just do a
Speaker 4: few simple steps, use the palms, the fingertips and work
Speaker 4: around in a sort of clockwise motion. Get a really
Speaker 4: good feel of what is your breast shape, size, lumps
Speaker 4: and bumps, just a little bit different.
Speaker 3: I reckon, everyone's in their car right now, I hope
Speaker 3: they are.
Speaker 4: But men do it in your car, sure, Look at
Speaker 4: the person next to you. They're probably going around in
Speaker 4: a seper motion to a really good A really good
Speaker 4: thing to do is to do it in the mirror, because,
Speaker 4: as you know, breaths are a mobile organ. They're on
Speaker 4: the outside of us. Actually looking at the way in
Speaker 4: which your breasts move, the shape, looking for skin textural
Speaker 4: changes and things like that. Whilst doing yourself breast examination
Speaker 4: in the mirror, You're then you're ticking all those boxes.
Speaker 6: So, Sarah, how can you tell the difference between like
Speaker 6: a normal fatty lump or a gland or something that
Speaker 6: we all have, Because like when you feel your boobs
Speaker 6: any day, you can feel like little lumps and bumps
Speaker 6: in there. But how do you tell the difference, So,
Speaker 6: for example, if you feel like a little pea or
Speaker 6: something a bit harder, like, what are the actual characteristics
Speaker 6: we're looking for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it's important to recognize that most breast cancers
Speaker 4: are actually you know, they start off feeling small and
Speaker 4: they're hard to feel, so you may not actually feel them.
Speaker 4: I think you're quite right. In particular younger women, there
Speaker 4: are lots of lumps and bumps there. What we're looking
Speaker 4: for is things that have changed, So a new lump,
Speaker 4: a thickening of the breast tissue in the case of
Speaker 4: my own breast cancer, a skin discoloration like a permanent
Speaker 4: bruise that won't go around go away, or anything that
Speaker 4: actually changes the shape and size of your breast that
Speaker 4: wasn't there before. That's when you need to be that
Speaker 4: sort of breast to wear and then go and see
Speaker 4: your health professional.
Speaker 3: Is it something that men need to be conscious of
Speaker 3: as well?
Speaker 5: Because I know that we usually talk about it women
Speaker 5: and women need to check their breast, but should men
Speaker 5: be even wary of this?
Speaker 3: Is it something that men can can get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, men have a really important role to play.
Speaker 4: A very small percentage of men that do you get
Speaker 4: breast cancer. So they can also check their breasts in
Speaker 4: a similar way to women understanding you know, obviously it's
Speaker 4: a much smaller area that they're going to be checking,
Speaker 4: but you know, changes in that general breast area. It's
Speaker 4: also important to check your armpits and up to the
Speaker 4: collarbone as well, because you'll be looking for changes in
Speaker 4: those lymph nodes that's where they live. And for men actually,
Speaker 4: I would also say they have an important role to
Speaker 4: help with their partners and indeed noticing that perhaps your
Speaker 4: partners has a change in their breast appearance.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I know the tag line is have you felt yours lately?
Speaker 4: And I'm not suggesting that you necessarily go and feel
Speaker 4: someone else's.
Speaker 3: Do it with us and.
Speaker 4: All eyes on. We're appropriate sometimes, you know, we need
Speaker 4: to look after each other.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're doing great work. The National Breast Cancer Foundation. Actually,
Speaker 1: since their inception in nineteen ninety four, the breast cancer
Speaker 1: rate in Australia has reduced over forty percent. It's amazing
Speaker 1: stuff too.
Speaker 5: Hi, though, I know you've had a conversation that can
Speaker 5: actually change and save people's lives.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and October is actually National Breast Cancer awarness months,
Speaker 1: so starting today, Professor Sarah Lewis, thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us on the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, great breast health guys.
Speaker 1: Boobies, guys.
Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, it swampy marshlands, surrounded by alligators.
Speaker 1: Totally. It's an interesting wedding. We've got the dates next.
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