Neoplastic Process
breast neoplasm
breast ne·o·plasm [ brest nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Neoplasms by Site; Breast Diseases
Definitions related to mammary neoplasms:
  • (breast neoplasm) A benign or malignant neoplasm of the breast parenchyma. It can originate from the ducts, lobules or the breast adipose tissue. Breast neoplasms are much more common in females than males.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (breast neoplasm) New abnormal mammary tissue that grows by excessive cellular division and proliferation more rapidly than normal and continues to grow after the stimuli that initiated the new growth cease.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (breast neoplasms) Tumors or cancer of the human BREAST.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (neoplasm of the breast) A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the breast.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
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