If you use dummies or teats these should be washed thoroughly after use and sterilised either by using a steam steriliser or by placing the dummies and teats in boiling water for 5 minutes.

If nipple pain or nipple trauma is not improving, seek help from your doctor, lactation consultant or an Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor External Link . During a hormone receptor test, a sample of cancer cells will be taken from your breast and tested to see if they respond to either oestrogen or progesterone. Once your provider has located the suspicious area of your breast using the MRI image, they’ll perform the biopsy.Your midwife, lactation consultant or an Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor can show you how to attach the baby properly or talk to you about baby-led attachment External Link . As with a core-needle biopsy, a surgical biopsy is done while the patient is under local anesthesia, or general anesthesia in some cases. If the breast biopsy will be done using an MRI, tell your doctor if you have a cardiac pacemaker or other electronic device implanted in your body. Nipple discharge associated with a breast lump ulceration of the nipple and areolar inversion/retraction of the nipple even if it is not spontaneous or blood stained requires urgent investigation.

The radiologist or surgeon performing the core-needle biopsy may use specialized imaging equipment to guide the needle to the desired site.

Our patients tell us that the quality of their interactions, our attention to detail and the efficiency of their visits mean health care like they've never experienced. It is necessary to be gentle and to avoid hard palpation during examination, otherwise the needle may migrate and penetrate into the pleural space or intrathoracic cavity and may lead to life-threatening complications, mainly pneumothorax. If you have suspected breast cancer, either because of your symptoms or because a mammogram has shown an abnormality, you'll be referred to a specialist breast cancer clinic for further tests.