{"id":187009,"date":"2017-08-03T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/this-womans-viral-photo-reveals-a-breast-cancer-symptom-thats-easy-to-overlook\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:04:23","slug":"this-womans-viral-photo-reveals-a-breast-cancer-symptom-thats-easy-to-overlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/this-womans-viral-photo-reveals-a-breast-cancer-symptom-thats-easy-to-overlook\/","title":{"rendered":"This Woman’s Viral Photo Reveals A Breast Cancer Symptom That’s Easy To Overlook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The dimpling on her skin was the only symptom Warner experienced, and she only knew that it could be a cause for worry because of a breast cancer awareness photograph<\/a> she’d seen previously. After her diagnosis, Warner decided to share a photo of her own breast to Facebook in order to spread awareness.<\/p>\n

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“I decided to do the post almost straight away,” Warner told MailOnline<\/a>. “I was sat in the car park and thought, ‘I’m going to put a picture on Facebook.’ It’s an intimate area and I was nervous about doing it but thought I’d do it in a delicate way and thought it would be worth it if it helped just one person. If I hadn’t seen a post like this previously I wouldn’t have known that this dimpling was a sign of cancer.”<\/p>\n

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Warner’s post has been shared over 1,300 times, educating women about the symptom and reminding them to conduct regular breast self-exams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to the American Cancer Society<\/a>, the most common symptom of breast cancer is a new lump or mass. However, other symptoms include<\/a> swelling, skin irritation, dimpling, scaly skin, breast or nipple pain, nipple retraction, and nipple discharge other than breast milk.<\/p>\n

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Dimpling due to breast cancer can be caused by an underlying mass<\/a>\u00a0like\u00a0a tumor underneath the skin that is pulling the skin inward. Dimpling or puckering isn’t an automatic cause for panic, as it could also be caused by scarring, cellulite, or a condition called fat necrosis, according to the journal of Diagnostic Radiology<\/a><\/em>. Regardless,\u00a0Mayo Clinic recommends<\/a> getting checked out any time you notice a change to your breasts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dimpling on her skin was the only symptom Warner experienced, and she only knew that it could be a cause for worry because of a breast cancer awareness photograph she’d seen previously. After her diagnosis, Warner decided to share a photo of her own breast to Facebook in order to spread awareness. RELATED:\u00a0This 31-Weeks-Pregnant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}