A blow to the breast, an operation, and suddenly cancer takes off.
So some researchers are taking a fresh look at ideas that were dismissed as folklore — a blow to the breast might spur cancer, an infection might fuel cancer cells, a weak immune system might let cancer spread.
He held the bird, beak up, to his lips and blew, parting its breast feathers and revealing the nubbly red skin underneath, so that he could gauge its body fat.
The radiologist called me in and showed me the picture of my right breast blown up to the size of my head.
On television, women are having breasts blown up and noses lopped off, and my little sisters are quibbling over haircuts.
Back then, her grief over losing her breast and the blow cancer dealt to her sex life was greeted with hostility by some critics and dismissed as frivolous.
On the birthday of a male vice president, we women were asked to hold lighted cupcakes in front of our breasts for him to blow out as he circled the room.
Duncan was dealt another emotional blow when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and died one day before his 14th birthday.
The diagnosis of breast cancer is a devastating blow for women and is associated with depression, anxiety, and a range of other psychological problems, such as self-blame and negative perception of body-image [ 1– 5].
Kathy was fighting breast cancer and I had blown out my knee.
Watching the mobs clamor to polish her breast for a moment or to blow kisses from her balcony, I try to appreciate what she means and to psychoanalyze what she provides as a role model.
