Breast Cancer
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You exam your body you find a lump on your breast. What is it you ask? Well answer may just be that you have the beginning stage of breast cancer. What is breast cancer you ask? Well cancer itself is a disease characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. Breast cancer specifically is any type of malignant cancerous growth in the breast tissue. There are several types of breast cancer, but the common types are Ductal Carcinoma, Lobular Carcinoma, Medullary Carcinoma, and Mucinous Carcinoma. Ductal Carcinoma is when cancer cells are present inside the milk ducts, but they have not yet spread through the walls of the ducts into the fatty tissue of the breast. For this reason, "nearly 100% of women diagnosed at an early stage can be cured. This type of breast cancer accounts for 85 to 90 percent of the cases of the disease" (http://www...