ABSTRACT
Breast examinations are often frightening for the patient as well. It is important that the people put them at ease, since a tense patient, particularly in ‘real’ situations, will be difficult to examine. It is important to recognise that clinical examination forms part of the triple assessment of breast disease. The station may well combine the aspects of breast examination with those of examining and describing a lump. There are two main techniques for breast examination, although they may have seen clinicians perform variations of these. Some clinicians recline the patient further and examine for an enlarged liver, and also may sit the patient forward and examine for spinal tenderness, or examine the chest. There is nothing on the breast examination to percuss or auscultate, unless the people are excluding liver or lung metastases, so once they have finished palpating, cover the patient and thank them.
