breast-cancer

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Noun breast-cancer has 1 sense

breast cancer - cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US
--₁ is a kind of carcinoma

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breast-cancer

Noun

A type of cancer that forms in the cells of the breasts.

Example sentence: She was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age.

Adjective

Relating to or characteristic of breast cancer.

Example sentence: The breast-cancer patients participated in a clinical trial.

Verb

To identify or detect breast cancer in an individual.

Example sentence: The doctor breast-cancered the patient through a mammogram.