breast
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Food and Drug Administration granted approval for the drug, based on the results of another trial, for advanced breast cancer upon the detection of a specific mutation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Catherine sat down and chatted to those receiving treatment at the hospital on Friday, including patients with breast cancer, head and neck cancer and a brain tumour.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Female breast cancer was the second most commonly diagnosed cancer globally.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
He said it has been an especially difficult time for Fernanda, as she and her sister lost their mother 13 years ago to breast cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
He reached into his breast pocket and took out a sheet of paper covered with numbers.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Another series of sculptures, “Miss Mao,” depicts the former leader with an exaggerated nose and breasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
The NHS says to check your breasts, external or chest about once a month.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Wholesale prices for boneless, skinless chicken breasts are down about 37% from 12 months ago, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Snuffy unwrapped one, holding in his hand an awkward wooden carving of a hollow-eyed and gaunt virgin squeezing a bellowing fat kid against her breasts.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
On a recent visit, a red breasted hawk perched atop a post where one of its security lights had broken and fallen off.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves” to devour Andromeda.
From Washington Post
The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
