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Radiation Exposure Causing Inflammatory Breast Cancer
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Most breast cancers (86 percent) start in the ducts, 12 percent start in lobules, and the rest in surrounding tissues. Thus, a
Since lobules and ducts are kinds of glands, and the medical term meaning "related to a gland" is "adeno," sometimes these cancers are called adenocarcinomas.
Inflamma...
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