"cancer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mammographic screening has also increased the diagnosis of noninvasive cancers and premalignant lesions.
- In cases of noninvasive cancers, simple mastectomies are performed in which only the breast with the lining over the chest muscles are removed.
- Although some of these very early noninvasive cancers may never become invasive and life-threatening, it is not possible to predict which will remain nonthreatening.
- Such noninvasive intraductal cancers account for only about 5 percent of breast cancers.
- If it hasn't broken through, though, it's called in situ, or noninvasive cancer.
- Nonetheless, the risk of developing noninvasive cancer increases with age and it is higher in women older than 45 years.
- Lumpectomies are commonly performed with radiation therapy to avoid noninvasive cancer from recurring or from developing into invasive cancers.
- With the increasing use of screening mammography, noninvasive cancers are more frequently diagnosed and now constitute 15% to 20% of all breast cancers.
- D.C.I.S., which is also called Stage 0 or noninvasive cancer, was a rare diagnosis before mammograms began to be widely used in the 1980s.
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