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Breast Cancer Onc.
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Finds / notices | Detects |
| Removal and examination of a live tissue sample | Biopsy |
| Hard | Firm |
| Miss, go without | Skip |
| Thick | Dense |
| With increased fibrous tissue and cystic spaces | Fibrocystic |
| Make sure it is not there, eliminate from consideration | Rule out |
| A hole that goes through something, an empty space within a frame, a depressed area in something | Hollow |
| Put in | inserted |
| mark on the skin, left from an injury or trauma | Scar |
| Steps taken to do something (in this case a biopsy) | Procedure |
| Judgement, result, final decisions | Verdict |
| Contained, limited to an area | Confined |
| to push through or into an area, with force | Penetrate |
| Only the tumour and surrounding breast tissue are removed | Conservative lumpectomy |
| Have bearing on the subject being discussed / information that is useful and related to the subject / topic discussed | Relevant |