Lumpectomy | surgery | Britannica (original) (raw)

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breast cancer treatment

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  In breast cancer: Treatment
  A lumpectomy removes only the cancerous mass and a small amount of surrounding tissue; a simple mastectomy removes the entire breast; and a modified radical mastectomy removes the breast along with adjacent lymph nodes. Radical mastectomies involving removal of the breast, underlying muscle, and other tissue…
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• In mastectomy
  …and local incision, sometimes called “lumpectomy,” in which only the tumour is removed.
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  In therapeutics: Surgical extirpation
  …no greater benefit than a lumpectomy (removal of the tumour only) followed by radiation to the area in early stages of breast cancer, while it often causes the patient increased psychological distress. However, because of improvements in breast reconstruction techniques, the trauma of a radical mastectomy is becoming less severe.
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