Cancer is a disease
starting from gene mutation and when those mutant cells develop to certain
extent can they form a malignancy. Therefore, cancer latency is long and hard
to notice in early stage. When symptoms present obviously, it has developed to
middles or late stage already. So we should be alert to the abnormal changes
occur on our body so as to prevent cancer.
There are many
hidden troubles of many parts in our body, but what should we do to detect
them?
Skin
Carefully check
your skin from head to toe, including the skin of chest, back and butt to see
if any abnormal changes on size, color and surface of scars, or some wounds and
ulcers on skin are hard to heal, or color changes on some parts of skin and
even if pain or numbness develop.
Face
Check that if your
face is bilateral symmetry, any pimples or spots increase or reduce. After that
is to see if the white of eyes becomes yellow or red and the eyes look like
dull. Push up your nose tip with your forefinger to find if any special like
swelling in nose. The last is to use your thumbs, forefingers and middle
fingers to pinch your ears gently to see if pain or hard mass of ears.
Head
Touch all the lymph
tissues arranging in preauricula, bilateral neck, tonsils, clavicles, post
aurem, or around occipital bone, shallows of neck, posterior nape and so on to
mind if any abnormality on size and shape. You must go to hospital for
examinations and treatment if any irregular changes touched and you also
develop the symptoms like unilateral nasal obstruction, bleeding in nose and
earplug at the same time.
Mouth
Check the color,
activity and shape of lips and if any lumps on them. To feel if any tenderness,
deviation or murmur in facial joints when open and close mouth. Keep your mouth
open to see whether there are red swellings, hardness, thickness or spots of
inner capsule of cheeks and dental caries (especially the white spots or
scars). Observe if any dissymmetry, difficulty in movement or color abnormality
by extending and turning your tongue, as well as if any varix or swelling on
surface, tip and edge of tongue.
Breasts
Female must check
their breasts one week after their menstruation (Any day can do if the
menstruation finishes). First keep your breast in natural status, watch if any
changes in size, shape or breasts and nipples. Press on nipples to confirm if
any fluid comes out. Lift up your arms to have the same examination again.
After that, lie on your back with one hand under your pillow, use the fingers of
the other hand to touch your breast in clockwise from inside to outside to
detect the lumps, thickness or pain. Then repeat the examination on another
breast. Please also mind that if any irregular changes of the lymph nodes of
upper lateral aspect of breasts and hypogastrica.
Abdomen
Inspect the shape,
texture, color and hair of abdomen, any changes or discharge of bellybutton.
And then lie on back with your feet bending and abdomen relaxing, use your
fingers together to touch the abdomen to feel if any hardness or pain.
Private parts
Some man in middle
or old age would touch their testicles and penis to confirm if any lumps or
other problems. When touching the testicles, can a man use forefinger, middle
finger and thumb together gently. If any special is found, then you may have to
be alert.
Secretion
Observe the color,
thickness and smells of sputum and whether it is mixed with blood streaks.
Notice the color, speed and volume of urine, as well as any blood mass and
shape change in stools
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