Breast in a sentence

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One in seven women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, and roughly half of all breast cancers occur in women with no specific risk factors other than sex and age.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer will affect in the U.S in their lifetime, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

It can also help detect breast cancer in women with breast implants and in younger women who tend to have dense breast tissue.

Health insurance would have been required to cover preventative breast cancer screening using digital breast tomosynthesis — 3D mammograms — for people at risk for breast cancer under a health care provision that didn’t survive.

Other screening tests for breast cancer include a clinical breast exam, in which a doctor feels for lumps or changes in the breast, or a self-exam, when a woman checks her own breasts for lumps or changes in size or shape.

Shockney, of Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a two-time breast cancer survivor and an expert in the field of breast cancer, and metastatic breast cancer.

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While natural tissue breast reconstruction has fewer problems over the long term, prepectoral implant breast reconstruction is a reasonable compromise for women who are unable or unwilling to undergo breast reconstruction with their own tissue.

Etymology The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost (breast, bosom) from Proto-Germanic breustam (breast), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus– (to swell, to sprout).

In the low-breast configuration, a proportion of the breast weight is supported by the chest, against which rests the lower surface of the breast, thus is formed the inframammary fold (IMF).

The inframammary fold, where the lower portion of the breast meets the chest, is an anatomic feature created by the adherence of the breast skin and the underlying connective tissues of the chest; the IMF is the lower-most extent of the anatomic breast.

A breast cancer lump, or tumour can appear in the breast or underarm.

Around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK, says Breast Cancer Now.

As October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month draws to a close, Mayor of Mid and East Antrim, Alderman Gerardine Mulvenna, welcomed representatives from Cancer Focus NI to help raise awareness of the campaign and to support the fight against breast cancer.

Breast cancer is a global health concern, and the World Health Organization has dedicated the month of October to educate, create awareness, and provide information on breast cancer.

Common symptoms included breast lumps, swelling, breast or nipple pain, dimpled skin and nipple discharge.

Driven by their vision to end breast cancer, Breast Cancer Canada is committed to funding research projects that will directly impact Canadian patients, focusing on the rapid movement of research findings from lab bench to bedside.

Dr. Lerman wants to enlighten those who are apprehensive, “closing the loop about breast cancer treatment by educating women about breast reconstruction options,” he stated.

During a police interview, Erickson denied inappropriately touching patients, but admitted to having no training or education related to breast mapping and "stated that breast mapping was his own idea," the affidavit alleges.

Ethel Nelson (left) and her daughter, Renee Rumph, both breast cancer survivors, take part in the Pink Promenade breast cancer awareness event in 2022.