breast cancer
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- noun
- /brɛst ˈkænsər/
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cáncer de mama
- The day before my wife and I were waiting for results for breast cancer.
- breast cancer patients
- breast cancer surgery
- operable breast cancer
We can detect the spread of breast cancer tumors much earlier.
- We can detect the spread of breast cancer tumors much earlier.
- Another less common but yet possible sign of breast cancer is breast pain.
- So triple negative breast cancer has the worst prognosis.
- So for the estrogen sensitive breast cancers, tamoxifen is used.
- Because not every patient with breast cancer gets the same treatment.
- We're learning now that breast cancer is related to gut microbiome.
- Almost never does breast cancer cause any pain whatsoever.
- So yes, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
- But as a result, women skipped breast cancer screening.
- They went to the lay press and said HRT causes breast cancer.
- We're talking about, is that in part what causes breast cancer?
- And she told me that she found out she had breast cancer, chose to have a double mastectomy.
- So Sheryl Crow, the American singer and musician, developed breast cancer.
- It's a little unusual study into the diagnosis of breast cancer.
- But diabetes kills more people than breast cancer and HIV AIDS combined.
- And that was the reason why breast Cancer Research was done on white males.
Examples
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Has anyone in your family had breast cancer?
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I have breast cancer.
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My mother has breast cancer and she needs me.
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So we are both going through breast cancer and she was my rock.
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Because not every patient with breast cancer gets the same treatment.
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My older sister died of breast cancer.
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Currently, it is widely recognized that women should be active participants in their breast cancer treatment.
Academic text (2013) -
She died of breast cancer.
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She had just beaten breast cancer and found a new lease on life.
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My mother has breast cancer and she needs me.
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'breast' (body part) and 'cancer' (disease): it denotes cancer located in the breast. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common compound construction (e.g. Spanish 'cáncer de mama'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Breast cancer names a disease that starts in the breast; long ago, doctors used the word cancer because some growths looked like a 'crab' with parts spreading out. So, breast cancer means a harmful growth that begins in the breast.