Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer arising in breast tissue. Cancer is simply a group of abnormal cells that have abnormal growth patterns.
Although breast cancer is primarily a disease of women, about 1% of breast cancers occur in men.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women and is the second leading cause of death by cancer in women, following only lung cancer.
In 2000, the American Cancer Society estimated that 184,200 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the United ... more
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