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Lumpectomy is sometimes referred to as breast-conserving surgery, partial mastectomy or wide local excision because only a piece of the breast is removed, not the entire breast as with a mastectomy.
In making the lumpectomy versus mastectomy decision, family history and genetics also can play a part, notes Dr. Michael Anderson, a radiation oncologist with Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada.
If you do a lumpectomy and more cancer is found, then additional tissue needs to be removed if you want to continue to preserve that breast. Next: Is It Normal to Have More Than One Lumpectomy?
Breast-conserving surgery, including lumpectomy and partial mastectomy, is a less radical form of cancer surgery that seeks to remove the localized tumor or cancerous tissue within the breast.
There are medically valid reasons for patients to choose mastectomy over lumpectomy. These include large tumors, multiple areas of cancer in the breast and genetic mutations such as BRCA1 and ...
Just before surgery, Spring decided to have a third consultation with Dr. Freya Schnabel of NYU Langone Medical Center, who encouraged her to consider a less invasive option: a lumpectomy -- in ...
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