Your sternum is located in the middle of your chest and is also known as the breastbone. It protects the organs of your torso from injury and serves as a connection point for other bones and muscles.

The sternum, or breastbone, is the flat bone where the ribs meet. Sometimes, the joints can pop or crack as a person stretches or moves. A muscle spasm, an injury, costochondritis, and surgery are ...

Chest tumors can be benign or malignant. Both types of tumors can cause similar symptoms, such as pain or swelling in the chest area. The chest wall forms the protective casing for the heart, lungs, ...

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Learn more about where breast cancer could metastasize, to prepare you for conversations with your doctor laflor/Getty Stock Image When breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it’s called ...

In the first surgical operation of its kind, a cancer patient has been fitted with a 3D-printed titanium sternum and ribs. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...

Chest pain when sneezing can happen for a number of reasons. It’s usually linked to illness, damage, or an injury in the chest wall. The pain may happen or worsen when you sneeze. This is because ...

PULMONARY bone-marrow embolism as a complication of closed-chest cardiac massage has rarely been reported. 1,2 This complication, however, has frequently been observed in routine autopsies of patients ...

The 2025 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium brought plenty of data and bold new ideas to the thousands of clinicians, researchers and patient advocates in attendance. Fred Hutch News followed it all.