Mrs. Weber is a 65-year-old patient who has presented at the clinic with a complaint of a tender breast mass that she discovered during breast self-examination
You have completed a physical examination on Mrs. Weber and have palpated a mass of the right breast in the lower outer qua-drant. When providing patient education to Mrs. Weber regarding the breast mass, you will ex-plain that the characteristics of a cancerous mass would be which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Immobile and firm
b. Pain on palpation
c. Irregular border edges
d. Mobile and rubbery
e. Nontender
A, C, E
Characteristics of cancerous breast masses are irregular or stellate, hard, fixed, nontender, and poorly delineated.
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