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Breast cancer

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  • Breast cancer cells
  • A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by Richard Tennant Cooper.
  • Taxus Baccata (Yew)
  • Breast cancer cell
  • Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
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    Plate LVI. Surgery for the removal of the mammary gland.

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    Table XLII-XLIII. A medicinal dictionary, 1743-45.

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    Breast cancer cell

    Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute
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    Breast cancer cells

    Annie Cavanagh
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    Breast cancer cell

    Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute
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