Reproductive, Pregnancy and Breast Health Terms

A substance being studied in the treatment of breast cancer that has come back.

A procedure used to do a mammogram (x-ray of the breasts) in women with breast implants.

An erection depends on blood flow, so difficulty with it can be the first outward sign of narrowing arteries elsewhere.

Applied to a person rather than to a function, which is precisely why clinical writing dropped the adjective in favor of a phrase.

Cancer that has spread from where it started in the breast into surrounding, healthy tissue.

The most common type of invasive breast cancer.

A type of breast cancer in which the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm.

A physical examination in which the health care professional will feel for lumps or changes in the shape of the vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and rectum.

A type of internal radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into a body cavity such as the chest cavity or the vagina.

A benign (not cancer), wart-like growth in a milk duct of the breast.

A noninvasive condition in which abnormal cells are found in the lining of a breast duct.

An intraductal papilloma is a benign, wart like growth within a breast milk duct that can cause nipple discharge.

Having to do with the inside of the vagina (the birth canal).

Cancer that has spread from where it started in the breast into surrounding, healthy tissue.

Cancer that has spread from the surface of the cervix to tissue deeper in the cervix or to other parts of the body.

A type of cancer that grows into the muscular wall of the uterus.

An estrogen-like substance made by some plants, including the soy plant.

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat childhood ovarian and testicular germ cell cancers that have spread.

A staging system for prostate cancer that uses ABCD.

A substance being studied in the treatment of prostate and other types of cancer.