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If you have a symptom or result of the screening test that suggests cancer, your doctor if this is due to cancer or other causes. Your doctor may ask about your personal and family history. You can use a physical exam. Your doctor may also order a mammogram or a diagnostic imaging procedure. These tests make pictures of tissues in the chest. After testing, your doctor may decide not need other tests. Your doctor may suggest that the subsequent follow-up examination. Or you may need a biopsy for cancer cells.
Clinical Breast Exam
Your provider of health care feels each breast for lumps and looks for other problems. If you have a solid, your doctor considers the size, shape and texture. Your doctor will also check to see if it moves easily. Benign lumps often feel different from those of cancer. Lumps that are soft, smooth, round and mobile probably benign. A hard, irregular shape, which feels safer in the risk of breast cancer.
Diagnostic Mammography
Diagnostic mammograms are x-ray images of the chest. They take clearer, more detailed images of areas that look abnormal on a screening mammogram. Doctors use to learn more about unusual breast changes, such as a lump, pain, thickening, nipple discharge, or a change in breast size or shape. Diagnostic mammograms may focus on a specific area of the breast. They may involve special techniques and more views than screening mammography.
