breast cancer

  • 111breast implant — A silicone gel filled or saline filled sac placed under the chest muscle to restore breast shape …

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  • 112breast reconstruction — Surgery to rebuild the shape of the breast after a mastectomy …

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  • 113Cancer — For other uses, see Cancer (disambiguation). Cancer Classification and external resources …

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  • 114Breast implant — A breast implant is a prosthesis used to enlarge the size of a woman s breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or the common slang term boob job) for cosmetic reasons; to… …

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  • 115Breast — The milk engorged breast of a pregnant woman …

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  • 116Cancer pain — Pain is a symptom frequently associated with cancer. Cancer can cause pain by irritating or damaging nerves, by stimulating nociceptors (pain sensitive nerve fibers), or by releasing chemicals that make nociceptors respond to normally non painful …

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  • 117Cancer staging — The stage of a cancer is a description (usually numbers I to IV with IV having more progression) of the extent the cancer has spread. The stage often takes into account the size of a tumor, how deeply it has penetrated, whether it has invaded… …

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  • 118Breast engorgement — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = Breast engorgement ICD10 = ICD9 = ICD9|676.24 Breast engorgement occurs in the mammary glands when too much breast milk is contained within them. It is caused by insufficient breastfeeding and/or blocked milk ducts …

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  • 119Cancer vaccine — The term cancer vaccine refers to a vaccine that either prevents infections with cancer causing viruses, treats existing cancer or prevents the development of cancer in certain high risk individuals. (The ones that treat existing cancer are known …

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  • 120Breast, Paget's disease of — The combination of scaly skin changes of the nipple resembling eczema and an underlying cancer of the breast. The nipple is inflamed because of the presence of Paget s cells. These large irregular cells are themselves not cancerous, but they are… …

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