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Research snapshot – Psychosocial interventions and cancer-related fatigue Abrahams 2020

breast cancer and men with non-metastatic prostate cancer. The effect of psychosocial interventions on cancer-related fatigue was not associated with sociodemographic or clinical characteristics, or with the extent of symptoms (fatigue, pain) prior to intervention. Breast cancer patients with clinically-diagnosed…

atypical ductal hyperplasia

A non-cancerous condition of the cells in the lining of the milk ducts in the breast.

axillary tail

Breast tissue that extends into the armpit.

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ducts

The canals within the breast that pass milk from the lobules to the nipple.

invasive lobular carcinoma

A cancer that started in the milk lobules but has spread into the normal breast tissue around it.

lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)

Abnormal cells in the lobes of the breast.

lobules

The milk-producing glands in the breast.

mammogram

An x-ray of the breast….

mastectomy

Surgically removing the whole breast….