Thread: Do you squeeze your wife regularly?

For breast lumps that is This isn't necessarily a question, but more of an awareness issue. I found out today that many men do not pay attention and check their significant others for odd lumps and different shapes in their breast tissue. Many cases, if discovered early enough, can be fought successfully. It's an easy way to show you care, plus get your hands on SWMBO's cans

If you're not sure what to do and how to go about it, check this link out: Susan G. Komen for the Cure | Understanding Breast Cancer | Early Detection & Screening | Breast Self-Exam

Save the boobs!

I'm so not going to comment!

Hey, watch it!

That's udderly outrageous.

You guys are a bunch of boobs!

Give the poor guy a break here! He's trying to promote awareness to something important and everybody just messes about.

Stop acting like tits.

Actually who knows their wives breasts better than their husbands! Granted we are not going to give as thorough an exam as their doctors but we do our best! Personally and from a medical standpoint: if we all were taught how to look for abnormalities we would greatly increase the treatment time.

I personally found a lump on my wife 2 years ago and her doc ordered a mammogram. The lump turned out to be nothing to worry about but still; it's an important tool to use.

I'd like to recommend each of us married men go with our wives (if they are alright with it) for their yearly pap. Just ask the doctor to show you how to do a breast exam "you don't want to be there for the rest!"

Ladies; go in with your husband sometime (if they are alright with it) and ask their docs to show you how to do a testicular exam. If he's going to check the prostate... just slip outside and never bring it up again!


I'm not kidding. Here in Colorado they do this "Buddy Check" in which your wife and a friend check each others breasts yearly. (Alright, wipe the grins off your faces!) If we could check our spouses and they could check us, we could detect an abnormality 6 months to a year ahead of everyone else and depending on how aggressive it is that could literally save a life! (Oh an if you have a history of testicular cancer in your family or your wife has a history of breast cancer in hers, you have an even greater incentive to learn!

Quick Orange; this was a really good post! Thanks

This is really important, actually. I try to do my best, but I've never been "trained", as it were, and it is definitely something to be aware of.

Breast self examination has been shown to be ineffective and to lead to an increased number of operations for benign tumors: Regular self-examination or clinical examination for early detection of breast cancer

It has been popular for a long time but should no longer be recommended.

So keep squeezing them for your pleasure only!

Originally Posted by Kees

Breast self examination has been shown to be ineffective and to lead to an increased number of operations for benign tumors: Regular self-examination or clinical examination for early detection of breast cancer

It has been popular for a long time but should no longer be recommended.

So keep squeezing them for your pleasure only!

Originally Posted by that link

The trials showed that women who were randomised to breast self-examination were almost twice as likely to undergo a biopsy of the breast

A biopsy is not major surgery, it is taking a small sample of tissue for testing. Sometimes it is no more than inserting a needle to take the sample.

I worked in a breast cancer unit for 8 years (not as a medic) and I heard horror stories of people who ignored extreme symptoms for a long time. I won't repeat the words, but the fact that one exact phrase has remained in my head after all this time should tell you something. It's better to check things out sooner IMO.

Most lumps are harmless. There is no harm in getting them checked out either way, other than expense. As a patient should that be your priority? Maybe so if you are in a country where you have to pay for the test, but that is not really a great argument against self examination.

Originally Posted by jmueller8

Actually who knows their wives breasts better than their husbands! ...

Oh wait, I know this one! Their ma'am?