Breast tumor

Introduction: Breast tumor

Description of Breast tumor

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Breast tumor: See also:

Breast Cancer:
  »Introduction: Breast Cancer
  »Symptoms of Breast Cancer
  »Causes of Breast Cancer
  »Treatments for Breast Cancer

Breast tumor: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Breast tumor:

• Breast
• Breast symptoms (240 causes)
• Breast disease
• Breast disorder
• Breast pain (77 causes)
• Tumor
• Tumor pain

Breast tumor as a Disease

Breast tumor: Another name for Breast Cancer (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Breast Cancer
  »Symptoms of Breast Cancer
  »Causes of Breast Cancer
  »Treatments for Breast Cancer

Breast tumor: Related Diseases

Breast tumor: Breast tumor is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Cancer
• Breast conditions
• Soft tissue tumors
• Women's health conditions

Causes of Breast tumor

Some of the causes of Breast tumor are included in the list below:

• The cancer can return at the original site. This is called a local recurrence
• The cancer can recur nearby, such as in the chest. This is called a regional recurrence
• The cancer can spread to a distant location in the body, such as lymph nodes, bone marrow, or lungs. This is called a distant recurrence, or a metastasis

Read more about causes of Breast tumor (Breast Cancer)

Symptoms of Breast tumor (Breast Cancer)

Some of the symptoms of Breast tumor incude:

• No early symptoms
• Breast lump
• Breast thickening
• Lump near breast
• Hard painless breast lump

See full list of 32 symptoms of Breast tumor (Breast Cancer)

Treatments for Breast tumor (Breast Cancer)

Treatments for Breast tumor (Breast Cancer) include:

• Local therapy
• Systemic therapy
• Chemotherapy
• Tamoxifen - used to interfere with estrogen for tumors that require estrogen.
• Radiation therapy

See full list of 27 treatments for Breast tumor

Treatment of Breast tumor: For more treatment information about Breast tumor, see treatment of Breast Cancer (Breast tumor)

Breast tumor: Related Disease Topics

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• breast mouse
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• fat necrosis
• breast cancer
• Intraductal cancer
• mastectomy
• mammogram
• ultrasonogram
• core biopsy

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