Breast Health Masterclass: Pain, Lumps & Cancer Screening with Dr. Ebuoma

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Dr. Lilian Ebuoma (Harvard-trained breast radiologist) breaks down EVERYTHING about breast health—from why 7-year-olds are developing breast buds earlier than ever, to the truth about mammograms, dense breasts, and that 25% stat that'll make you want to move your body today. Watch the full episode at https://youtu.be/vi6U2V3LPok

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0:00.0	And a fun fact that a lot of people don't know is you develop what they call like breast
0:04.3	like ridges and it actually starts from your mid thigh all the way up actually almost to like
0:09.9	your armpit area.
0:11.8	I had mastitis when I was breastfeeding my first child and my midwife was like, all right.
0:16.9	So you're going to basically like extract like where you feel the backup and like it was so like I don't know if this is TMI we're going to get an explicit rating.
0:23.8	I always talk about pain and breast cancer what came for us at chicken or the egg because some people who swear that they had pain in this breast and then two, three years later they developed cancer in that breast.
0:33.6	You said exercising daily makes women 25% less likely to develop breast cancer. Now, some
0:42.6	pharmaceutical companies said, hey, we came up with this pill that drops your risk by 25%. Like,
0:49.4	everybody would be taking it. So the big thing, though, that people worry about with the mammograms is a radiation.
0:55.7	So does the risk of the radiation that you get to your breasts outweigh the risk of
0:59.8	finding a cancer?
1:01.3	And one of my professors at Harvard used to describe it like this.
1:05.8	The amount of radiation that you get in the mammogram is less than flying from the East Coast to the West Coast.
1:15.9	Okay. that you get in the mammogram is less than flying from the east coast to the west coast. Hello, my friends.
1:17.1	Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.
1:19.5	It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Estima.
1:21.8	And today, you are going to learn everything you ever wanted to know about your breasts. So we are talking about
1:29.9	common issues with breast development, asymmetry, the breast buds. We are talking about
1:36.8	lumps. We are talking about dense breasts. We're talking about discharge from breath. Literally
1:42.1	absolutely everything. And of course, we talk about mammograms and
1:45.6	ultrasounds and breast cancer, the different types of cancer, different populations and what we can
1:51.3	do about them. My guest today is Dr. Lillian Iboma. She is a Harvard trained breast
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