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Breast cancer 2

This is a slice of a mastectomy specimen (surgical removal of a breast) showing a typical breast cancer (here, an invasive ductal carcinoma).

 

The appearance of this tumour is classical. I used it to illustrate the (probable) origin of the name "cancer" in the Wikipedia page for this disease: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer

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Uploaded on December 5, 2006
Taken on December 5, 2006