When to contact a healthcare professional

Knowing how your breasts feel most of the time makes it easier to know when there's a change.

Reasons to talk with a healthcare professional include:

• Finding a new breast lump or thickness that doesn't feel the same as the tissue around it or the tissue in the other breast.
• Seeing a change in the size or shape of a breast or how it looks.
• Having pain in the breast, especially if it doesn't go away after the next period.
• Having skin changes on a breast or in the nipple area, such as itchiness, scaling, dimpling, puckering or redness. Redness may be harder to see on Black or brown skin.
• Having a nipple that suddenly turns inside out, called an inverted nipple.
• Seeing fluid come from the nipple, called discharge.