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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to highlight the importance of early detection and screening. Breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast grow uncontrollably. The breast consists of three main parts:<\/p>\n
1. Lobules – Glands that produce milk.<\/p>\n
2. Ducts – Tubes that carry milk to the nipple.<\/p>\n
3. Connective tissue – Fibrous and fatty tissue that supports the breast.<\/p>\n
Most breast cancers start in the ducts or lobules and can spread to other parts of the body, a process called metastasis….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to highlight the importance of early detection and screening. Breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast grow uncontrollably. The breast consists of three main parts: 1. Lobules – Glands that produce milk. 2. Ducts – Tubes that carry milk to the nipple. 3. Connective tissue – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":181787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15486,6808,12857,7473,18929,5060,4688,430,257,6735,254],"class_list":["post-181786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breast","tag-cancer","tag-combat","tag-early","tag-encourage","tag-experts","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-screening","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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