Synonyms for breast cancer
breast can·cer

Princeton's WordNet

1. breast cancernoun

   cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US

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1. • Carcinoma

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1. mammary tumour

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1. Gerri Willis:

   You need people around you – you need other breast cancer people with you to give you ideas and suggestions to survive the treatment.

2. Otis Brawley:

   If she starts screening at age 40, she increases the risk that she'll need a breast cancer biopsy that turns out with the doctor saying 'You don't have cancer, so sorry we put you through all this,'.

3. Victoria Harmer:

   It is encouraging and perhaps to be celebrated that women are detecting similar rates of cancers and this should arm women with confidence that they are performing this task well, the risk of breast cancer increases with a woman's age, so it is vital older women continue to be breast aware.

4. Andrew Dannenberg:

   The main takeaway is that having excess body fat, even when you have a normal body mass index, is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.

5. Ahmedin Jemal:

   One factor that could contribute to the increase is this desire for symmetry, another factor is probably the Angelina Jolie effect. She was diagnosed with the BRCA-1 cancer gene that mutation that causes breast cancer, and she had a double mastectomy, so that was covered widely in the media.