Support the fight against Breast Cancer.
Use the hashtag #OperationPink in your tweets or Instagram pictures.
Each time you use the #OperationPink hashtag, Parkway Medical donate SGD 50cents to the cause from 2nd Oct onwards.
Please share and take part! More info here – http://map.operationpink.sg/
The Mission:
“Gleneagles, Mount Elizabeth Novena, Mount Elizabeth Orchard and Parkway East Hospital invite you to join our united stand against cancer with OPERATION PINK. We believe that our combined effort will help women who are battling cancer, by empowering them and their families with knowledge, support and hope.”
Women, do your part to educate and support those around us. There so many of us who know someone who has had Breast Cancer, whether it be Family, friends, or a friend of a friend.
It’s striking women younger and as some of us hit our 30’s, its better to prevent rather than cure!
MONTHLY SELF-EXAMINATION / TAKE CHARGE. TAKE ACTION!
A monthly breast self-examination 7-10days after your period starts can save your life.
At each of the following positions:
01. Arms at your sides
02. Arms raised above or behind your head
03. Hands on hips and chest muscles tensed
Look out for:
- Change in size or shape of breast
- Dimpling of the skin
- Change in appearance of nipples
- Discharge from nipples (by squeezing gently)
Place pillow under left shoulder with left hand under head
- Use the pulp of the first three fingers of right hand, hold fingers flat to check left breast
- Press firmly, using small circular movements to feel
for lumps - Start from outside edge of breast, going inwards in circles
- Check entire breast, armpit and behind nipple
- Repeat these steps using left hand to check right breast
- Raise right arm above the head
- Soap left hand and check right breast as described in “lying down position”
- Repeat the steps using the right hand to check left breast
