Sentences with phrase «rare type of breast cancer»

Paget disease of the nipple is a rare type of breast cancer involving the skin of the nipple.

Paget's disease is a rare type of breast cancer that starts in the breast ducts and spreads to the nipple and areola (dark skin around the nipple).

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For example, inflammatory breast cancer is a very rare type of cancer found at a higher rate in Northern Africa where there are fewer scientists available to analyze the data.

«We found a strong reduction in the risk of estrogen - receptor - negative [ER --RSB- breast cancer in particular, which is exciting because that type of tumor, while rarer than estrogen - receptor - positive [ER +] tumors, tends to be aggressive.»

This rare, aggressive type of breast cancer causes redness and swelling of the breast.

When doctors diagnosed her in November 2015 with secretory breast carcinoma, a rare type of cancer afflicting one person in a million, «it was devastating,» says her father, Troy Turner, 45, a survivor of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.