That might not be as dramatic as the image of Cleopatra clasping an asp to her breast.
Edwards underwent several months of radiation and chemotherapy for the lump in her breast.
In 1992 her breast cancer came roaring back only two years after she'd had a double mastectomy.
By the time she had her insurance reinstated, her breast cancer had more than doubled in size.
It can be brought on by chemotherapy and radiation, treatments that Roberts underwent after her breast cancer diagnosis.
She thought she had beaten her breast cancer but then later discovered it had spread to her bones.
After seeing the enthusiastic response from her breast cancer support group, Weintraub knew she had a winning idea.
She's recently found a lump in her breast and been told it's cancer.
She is suckling her infant at her breast and - of course knitting.
Silberman got her breast cancer diagnosis in 2009 and underwent treatment and surgery, but the cancer spread to her liver.
In 1999, a then-47-year-old U.S. physician found a lump in her breast while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station.
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They were trying to determine whether the type of alcohol or just the amount a woman drinks impacts her breast cancer risk.
The court heard the plastic surgeon took the photograph of a patient, who had been anaesthetised, when he was about to replace her breast implants.
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Elizabeth Edwards announced last year that her breast cancer had returned.
She called another lactation consultant, who listened patiently to her story and immediately offered this tip: pump some milk, throw it away, and put Anika to her breast.
Dr. Vaniver was not alone in her breast cancer diagnosis.
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In the case of the 41-year-old mother-of-four, who is in remission, but has been warned her breast cancer could come back, the trust ruled it was not as well as citing safety grounds.
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These hormones include cortisol (which is related to stress), estradiol (the main female sex hormone) and prolactin (which, as its name suggests, triggers her breast tissue to develop the ability to secrete milk).
On Thursday, her doctor, Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina Medical Center, described Edwards' condition as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, meaning the cancer has spread beyond her breast and lymph nodes.
Miriam had two breast operations to remove her cancer (removal of a quarter of her breast and then later a full mastectomy of the same breast) - a tumour that doctors say may never have gone on to cause her any problems.
Dying of thyroid cancer that had spread to her breast and liver, Sheri spent the last year or so of her life making Idahoans aware of how much fallout the state had received and making Idaho politicians push for compensation for those of their citizens whose lives had been lost, shortened, or made a living hell by federal policy.
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She lost her grandmother to breast cancer and her mother and sister were breast cancer survivors, so she understood how devastating the disease could be.
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She loves the prominent appreciation for breast cancer awareness this month and hopes to one day have her own breast cancer fund to focus on holistic treatments.
She spoke of the Amazon woman who would cut off her right breast so that it did not get in the way of her bow, and whose prowess was commemorated by statues in the temple.
When BBC News spoke to her she had been just given the news that a lump in her other breast was benign.
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Over the course of the next two years he fell in love with a local girl, married, and lost her to breast cancer.
Paige Arthur, a 41-year-old Boerum Hill mother, said that when she gave birth in January and her son was in the NICU, the nurses stuffed him with formula and one even criticized her for breast feeding.
By now, you have probably read the horror stories about the cancer survivor who was told to remove her prosthetic breast, the gentleman with the urostomy bag whose TSA screening left him soaked in his own urine, or the woman whose child was taken by the TSA for additional screening.
Miss District of Columbia plans to undergo a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, which killed her mother and grandmother.
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