Breast Self Examination Can Be Made Easy With Breastlight

There are misconceptions among women that breast self examination is difficult to perform and some think that it can prevent breast cancer, but some of them understand the real purpose of doing it.

Why to Do Breast Self-Examination?

A self examination should not be done as a substitute of clinical test or mammogram screening; it must be done as part of your breast cancer awareness. Those who take it as precautionary measure are wrong it can only help you in early detection of unusual changes and it can’t be said these changes are the signs of breast cancer. This examination tells you about the normal breast size, shape, look and feel of your breasts.

Breastlight – Innovation in Breast Care Devices

Breastlight is innovative medical device that has been designed for women to make the breast examination easy and to help them enlightening breast cancer awareness. It functions by shining a red safe light through breast tissues to spot unusual changes as dark spots. This medical device shows you what can’t be seen with naked eye you can have a new experience with its use of looking into your breasts.

What to Look For With Breastlight?

These images will explain what you have to look for while using this device. These pictures are given for illustrative purpose and are not clinical photographs.

If you look very dark clusters and shadowy areas while using breastlight, you should go straight away to your GP.

What People Say About Breastlight?

It has been appreciated by all its users and they recommended the use of this device as part of their breast awareness routine .Opinions of some women are given below

“Amazed at how much detail you could see.”

“I felt quite relieved as all looked normal.”

It’s especially good for young women like me, without access to regular mammograms."

“It was very interesting seeing through your breasts for the first time. I am impressed.”

Clinical Evidence

These are the results of a trial at Sunderland City Hospital

Results

The Breastlight device:

-       Detected 12 out of 18 malignant tumors, confirmed as positive using biopsy (giving a sensitivity of 67%)

-       Correctly identified as negative 240 out of 282 breasts (giving a specificity of 85%)

-       Detected malignant tumors as small as 7mm

Menopausal status, age or density or cupsize of breast did not make any difference to the accuracy or sensitivity of the device. In terms of usage, Breastlight was found to be easy to use. Researchers concluded that Breastlight correlates well in terms of sensitivity and specificity when compared to imaging techniques such as ultrasound and mammography, plus biopsy.