Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from breast tissue most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk...Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas while those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas....Breast cancer occurs in humans and other mammals...While the overwhelming majority of human cases occur in women, male breast cancer can also occur...
Smoking tobacco appears to increase the risk of breast cancer.... in the case of breast cancer the whole breast is removed...
Mammography is the process of using low-energy-X-rays to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool....the goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and microcalcifications..
Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts..partially or completely....Mastectomy is usually done to treat breast cancer in some cases, women and some men believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically that is to prevent cancer rather than treat it....It is also the medical procedure carried out to remove breast cancer tissue in males.....
