If you learn to recognize what the breast cancer symptoms are, you empower yourself to find out what’s going on with your body. You might find out it’s not cancer. You’ve lessened the burden of worry because you recognized a possible symptom, and bravely forged ahead to get diagnosed.
If you do you have cancer, you have a much better chance reaching the goal of recovery and long-term survival than if you’d put it off.
If you can learn to identify symptoms you can often help friends and family by giving the extremely valuable gift of early detection and diagnosis.