Consequently, widespread adoption of mammography has produced an image-guided breast biopsy industry in the United States.
A treatise, mercantile: Medela, a Swiss company that has long been a breast-pump industry leader, introduced its first non-hospital, electric-powered, vacuum-operated breast pump in the United States in 1991; five years later it launched the swank Pump In Style.
Coming as it does after the destruction of the breast-implant industry, where there was no scientific evidence linking the industry's product to any serious disease, the tobacco industry may count itself lucky to survive.
Some of that money is being spent in the growing breast-massage industry, which is based on age-old Chinese acupuncture practices.
It was the first judgment by authoritative independent reviewers that there may be little hard evidence to support the large breast cancer screening industry that has become a well-entrenched feature of the American medical system.
Another issue is the fact that the breast milk substitute industry, which is expected to reach $70 billion by 2019, spends more on promoting its products than governments do on protecting and supporting breastfeeding.
To increase the figures, though, leaders need to scale up campaigns to educate women in the developing world, support mothers in the workplace and better regulate the breast milk substitute industry, the Lancet stated.
It is estimated that the global breast-milk substitute industry will grow in sales from $45 billion to $71 billion between 2014 and 2019.
She demanded tighter regulation of the cosmetic surgery industry and breast augmentation and called for women to be compensated for the trauma and distress caused by ruptured implants and having to have them replaced.
These are universes where no one dies a natural death, where limbs fly and heads erupt, and the women -- well-armed heroines, many of them --are drawn by men who have mastered the art of what the industry calls "breast physics".
