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(words, index terms, keywords that helped you find your info) || Breast Cancer || ·  Record only important info ·  **PARAPHRASE ** ·  Try to find a short effective quote || -  Breasts/ mammary glands consist of fat pads -  Inside fat pads is a branching system of ducts -  Ducts designed to carry milk from milk producing lobules to the nipples -  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Breast cancer develops as a result of malignant changes in the cells lining the ducts or the lobules - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">First abnormalities occur are an overgrowth of normal cells in the ducts/ lobules – stage = hyperplasia - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When the cells start to clog the ducts/ lobules the condition is called carcinoma in situ - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When cancer cells remain confined to ducts + lobules, ductal carcinoma in situ + lobular carcinoma in situ - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If abnormal cells break away from these parts of the breast to infiltrate adjoining cells, the condition is called invasive cancer - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">At this point, a discrete lump on the breast starts to grow - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If cancerous cells escape the breast and travel through the lymph system/ blood stream into distant parts of the body (esp. lungs, liver, bones) >> breast cancer has metastated. - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Cancer in breast itself doesn’t kill anybody because not vital organ - <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">But when abnormal cells disrupt normal function of vital organs, breast cancer becomes life-threatening. || · <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ideas, reactions to information · <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Your opinions · <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ways to present this info on your wiki · <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Images/video to support this ||  || <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
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