Word: nodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main causes of breast cancer are chronic mastitis (inflammation), and stagnation of milk or other secretions. Somehow breast cancer is related to high-speed ovaries, and latest statistics show that it may be more common in women who do not nurse their children. If a little cancerous node is detected early, it can be easily removed and the disease checked. But in advanced cases the breast must be amputated, all the lymph glands leading to the shoulder and arm must be carefully tied off or removed...