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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 19, 1420-1421, October 2, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Routinely Teaching Breast Self-Examination is Dead. What Does This Mean?

Russell Harris, Linda S. Kinsinger

Affiliations of authors: R. Harris (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research), L. S. Kinsinger (Program on Prevention), Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Corresponding author: Russell Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, CB# 7590, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590 (e-mail: rharris@med.unc.edu).

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Physical examination of the breast is not a single test. Among clinicians (where it is termed "clinical breast examination" or CBE), it has various degrees of accuracy, depending on the clinician and his or her technique (1). Among women (where it is termed "breast self-exam" or BSE), it is sometimes an accurate test, but often it is not (2,3). In either case, physical examination of the breast is a difficult examination to learn to do well, especially when searching for the subtle changes that can signal early breast cancer (2,4–9).

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