• Start clinical breast exams at least once every three years in your 20s and 30s
• Become familiar with how your breasts normally feel so you can detect changes
• Initiate yearly mammograms and clinical breast exams at the age of 40
• Get a yearly MRI as well as mammogram if you are at very high risk for breast cancer
• Use the combined approach of mammograms and breast exams (and MRIs if recommended) to increase your chance of finding breast cancer early
• Start earlier screening if you are at high risk
• Make sure your mammography facility is certified by the Food and Drug Administration
Source: American Cancer Society
