According to the ancient Greek poets Apuleius and Collothus, only Aphrodite undressed ( and in the case of Collothus, she merely " bares her breast ").

According to Freud's theory, in the earliest stage of a child's psychosexual development, the oral stage, the mother's breast became the formative source of all later erotic sensation.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of reconstructive breast reductions for women increased in 2007 by 2 percent from the year before.

According to WPATH, medically necessary sex reassignment surgeries include " complete hysterectomy, bilateral mastectomy, chest reconstruction or augmentation [...] including breast prostheses if necessary, genital reconstruction ( by various techniques which must be appropriate to each patient [...])[...] and certain facial plastic reconstruction.

According to a miraculous legend ( miraculum ), a poor woman who was starving in prison was saved when her daughter gave her breast milk ( compare Roman Charity ).

According to legend, Brutus grabbed the dagger from Lucretia's breast after her death and immediately shouted for the overthrow of the Tarquins.

According to their analysis one in 2, 000 women will have her life prolonged by 10 years of screening, however, another 10 healthy women will undergo unnecessary breast cancer treatment.

According to The Daily Mirror UK security officials at MI-6 asserted that female bombers could travel undetected carrying the explosive chemicals in otherwise standard breast implants.

According to scripture Erya — chapter 17 Shiniao, Fenghuang is said to be made up of the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish.

According to the ACS " studies have not shown any direct link between parabens and any health problems, including breast cancer.

" According to researchers at the NCI, they " are not aware of any conclusive evidence linking the use of underarm antiperspirants or deodorants and the subsequent development of breast cancer.

According to a 1997 Human Rights Watch report, this technique was " widely employed " by the security forces of Turkey, where it is " usually used together with high pressure water, electric shock, beating, or sexual harassment such as squeezing the testicles or breast or placing a nightstick against or in the vagina or anus.

According to records, ancient herbalists also recommended a decoction of the alder leaves to cure cancer of the face, throat, tongue, duodenum, esophagus, breast, rectum, pancreas, pylorus and uterus.

According to a meta-analysis in the Cochrane Collaboration, two large trials in Russia and Shanghai found no beneficial effects of screening by breast self-examination " but do suggest increased harm in terms of increased numbers of benign lesions identified and an increased number of biopsies performed.

According to tradition, Cleopatra VII famously committed suicide by snakebite to her left breast, as seen in this 1911 painting by Hungarian artist Gyula Benczúr.

According to a report by msnbc. com released online on Saturday, June 30, 2012, human breast milk may have the ability to act against, and to possibly kill, HIV ( the human immunodeficiency virus ), the virus that ultimately causes AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ).

* According to a September 14, 2007, article from CTV News, Canadian Liberal MP Belinda Stronach went to the United States for breast cancer surgery in June 2007.

According to U. S. Navy Uniform Regulations, the Merchant Marine Reserve Insignia is an approved breast qualification insignia for wear on prescribed U. S. Navy uniforms.

According to a later account by Copenhagen anatomist Thomas Bartholinus, if someone pushed the breast of Joannes Baptista, he moved his hands, ears and lips.

According to Gill, editor Harold Ross originally balked at publishing the drawing because it depicted a naked woman with one exposed breast.

According to the most recent 2008 statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, facelifts were the sixth most popular aesthetic surgery performed after liposuction, breast augmentation, blepharoplasty ( eyelid surgery ), abdominoplasty ( tummy tuck ), breast reduction, and rhinoplasty.

According to a study published in the February 2012 issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research ( AACR ), soy isoflavone supplements did not decrease breast cancer cell proliferation in a randomized clinical trial.

According to the official citation, the breast cord of honor given them and their successors was made red, the artillery's color, to show that they were expert artillerymen as Infantrymen.

According to the National Cancer Institute, " Mistletoe extract has been shown to kill cancer cells in the laboratory and to affect the immune system.

According to the ESOPE project ( European Standard Operating Procedures of Electrochemotherapy ), the Standard Operating Procedures ( SOP ) for electrochemotherapy were prepared, based on the experience of the leading European cancer centres on electrochemotherapy.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking, causing 21, 000 lung cancer deaths per year in the United States.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), PCBs have been shown to cause cancer in animals, and there is also evidence that they can cause cancer in humans.

According to the National Cancer Institute ( NIH ), doctors believe that, when part of a series or syndrome of multiple moles, dysplastic nevi are more likely than ordinary moles to develop into the most virulent type of skin cancer called melanoma.

According to the US EPA, even the background level can pose a risk of cancer from 1: 10000 up to 1: 1000, about 100 times higher than normal.

According to the " seed and soil " theory, it is difficult for cancer cells to survive outside their region of origin, so in order to metastasize they must find a location with similar characteristics.

According to the AICR, the average risk of colorectal cancer is 5. 8 percent, but 7 percent when a hot dog is consumed daily over years.

According to Hall, much of the material with Partridge was based on Anderson watching his father die of cancer.

According to a local news broadcast, " Two years ago, academy study concluded that PAVE PAWS was probably not to blame for elevated cancer rates in the general population.

According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ( PhRMA ), about 400 cancer medicines were being tested in clinical trials in 2005.

According to his mother, Dolores, Costello died of lung cancer at a hospital in his native Kingston on June 29, 2011.

According to research reported at the Sixth International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention, sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research, a standardized green tea polyphenol preparation ( Polyphenon E ) limits the growth of colorectal tumors in rats treated with a substance that causes the cancer.

According to Norman Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, epicatechin can reduce the risk of four of the major health problems: stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes.

According to journalist Christopher Hitchens, Sontag later recanted this statement, saying that " it slandered cancer patients ".

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), HPV is responsible for about 800 ( about 40 %) of 1, 570 cases of penile cancer diagnosed annually in the United States.

According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, for which researchers reviewed colon cancer screening data from 1966 to 2001, the most severe complications from colonoscopy are perforation ( that occurred in 0. 029 % to 0. 72 % of cases ), heavy bleeding ( occurring in 0. 2 % to 2. 67 % of colonoscopies ) and death ( occurring in 0. 003 % to 0. 03 % of colonoscopy patients ).

According to Gold, the HeLa contamination problem almost led to a Cold War incident: The USSR and the USA had begun to cooperate in the war on cancer launched by President Richard Nixon only to find that the exchanged cells were contaminated by HeLa.

According to the American Cancer Society, there are no established guidelines for preventing pancreatic cancer, although cigarette smoking has been reported as responsible for 20 – 30 % of pancreatic cancers.

According to Abiko, the cause for the dissolution of the partnership was due to Fujimoto discovering he had liver cancer in 1986, and the desire of both Fujimoto and Abiko to settle issues of copyright and finances before Fujimoto's death in 1996.