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breast can·cer

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  1. breast cancernoun

    cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US

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  1. mammary tumour

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  1. Julie Nangia:

    If Ramsey Cutress have a family history, Ramsey Cutress are more likely to develop breast cancer, and young women are also more likely to develop a more aggressive type of breast cancer.

  2. Mahdi Fallah:

    When the breast cancer mortality rate for Black women in their 40s is 27 deaths per 100,000 person-years, this means 27 out of every 100,000 Black women aged 40-49 in the US die of breast cancer during one year of follow-up. In other words, 0.027% of Black women aged 40-49 die of breast cancer each year.

  3. Helena Earl:

    Joseph Sparano said. The TAILORx study was n’t the only breakthrough research on breast cancer that was presented at ASCO. Dr. Helena Earl, a professor from the University of Cambridge in Britain, looked at whether women with HER-2 positive early-stage breast cancer could be treated with the drug Herceptin for 6 months instead of 12. Though Herceptin has improved survival and recurrence rates for over a decade in breast cancer patients, the drug is associated with a risk for heart damage in long-term users. When Herceptin was first introduced the 12-month period was almost plucked out of the air and there was n’t any evidence of how long you woud need to carry on with a targeted treatment to get the effect.

  4. American Cancer Society:

    For each of these cancers, the more alcohol you drink, the higher your cancer risk, but for some types of cancer, most notably breast cancer, consuming even small amounts of alcohol can increase risk.

  5. Janine Detore:

    One of my friend’s daughters is 17 years old and she has breast cancer. She and anyone her age would love that shirt. As a matter of fact, she owns that BOO BEE shirt, breast-cancer awareness is what we should be focusing on. Not just the shirt.


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