“And it said doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis.
Huh?”
I can’t believe the article didn’t bother to explain this. My guess is that the self-exams can give women a false sense of security (”I didn’t feel anything, so why bother having them checked by a doctor”), when quite often women don’t really know what they’re doing when they do a self-exam. Might also be because it causes unnecessary worry (and unnecessary doctor’s visits), when a woman thinks she’s feels something but it’s nothing. Just a guess—but still lousy reporting to not explain (would have taken all of a sentence).
A friend from church did a self-exam and found cancer just a few months after her annual mammogram.