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Microscopic view of breast tissue stained to evaluate for the presence of cancer.

 

In many settings—in business, for example, or in a family or on a farm—the word "growth" usually has positive connotations. But coming from a doctor's lips, that single word provokes nothing in a patient but fear. Nikki Harrison heard it just days after her 36th birthday, as did Rhonda Olenick when she was 55, and Joan Antonucci at 59. These three women are battling an insidious form of growth that has caused cells from primary tumors in their breasts to invade and grow in other organs and tissues in their bodies. continued...

 
   


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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
December 2003, pages 30-34.
©2003 Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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