Word: breast
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...combatting breast cancer, for instance, doctors often use both surgery to remove the primary spot, and chemotherapy, the administering of drugs, to stop the spread of malignant cells...
...once a tumor spreads beyond a certain point--breast cancer after it has spread to the lymph nodes, for example--the cure rate decreases dramatically...
Greek doctors gave the disease its name (the word cancer means crab) and described cancer of the breast which, in advanced stages, has the appearance of a central lump with lines (or claws) extending from...
...time Apples emerges from the ministrations of Rory Bernal, the Chinese-Jamaican makeup man, she looks like Aphrodite in the year 2001. Gallant stretches her out across his glass dinner table and arranges her blouse to show her right breast. The makeup man starts a blower to make her hair blossom. Gallant clicks away: "That is great, wonderful . . . bring that hand just a little closer . . . that's right, give me tits again ... let me fix the hair. . ." Between shots Apples curls up like a cat and sings softly to herself. The next morning she is booked on a flight...
Under cross-examination by Clyde Bergstresser, Glicklich's attorney, Wilson explained that improved techniques have reduced the mortality rate, although the number of women who get breast cancer per 100,000 women has risen sharply...