knowing what is normal for your breasts, breast awareness, X-ray of the breast, mammogram, a breast with lots of tissue; harder to see tumors, dense breasts, scan of the interior of the breast, breast MRI, scan using sound waves, ultrasound, procedure to remove a sample of cells, fluid or tissues, biopsy, uses laboratory tests on samples to find disease, pathologist, small sac that contains fluid, cyst, a group of abnormal cells, tumor, abnormal but non cancerous tumor, benign, cancerous tumor - can spread, malignant, how the cancer cells look compared to normal cells, grade, drugs used to treat cancer, chemotherapy, treatment that involves cutting, destroying or manipulating tissue, surgery, removal of all breast tissue, mastectomy, removal of a part of the breast tissue, lumpectomy, use of radiation to destroy cancer cells or to slow their growth, radiation therapy, when cancers move to other parts of the body, metastisize, care for a patient with a terminal illness that makes them comfortable in body and mind, palliative care, filters foreign substances from the body, lymph nodes

Breast Cancer - Definitions

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