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2. Breast cancer management - Wikipedia

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   Breast reconstruction surgery is the rebuilding of the breast after breast cancer surgery, and is included in holistic approaches to cancer management to address identity and emotional aspects of the disease. Reconstruction can take place at the same time as cancer-removing surgery, or months to years later.

3. Mastectomy - Wikipedia

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   Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. A mastectomy is usually carried out to treat breast cancer. [1][2] In some cases, women believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation as a preventive measure. [1] Alternatively, some women can choose to have a wide local ...

4. These breast cancer survivors are happier than ever post ...

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   In the days before Davina Gantz-Needle's double mastectomy, the 52-year-old Maryland resident spent time mentally preparing for the outcome, which she was certain she'd loathe.

5. Preventive mastectomy - Wikipedia

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   When cancer has affected already one breast, the other breast, still healthy, may be removed in a unilateral preventive mastectomy. Typically either a simple, a subcutaneous or a nipple-sparing mastectomy is performed. With the former the areola and nipple are removed, while the other two approaches preserve the nipple area for cosmetic reasons.

6. Pain Relief for Women With Mastectomy: How Nerve ... - AOL

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   Woman had a double mastectomy to prevent her breast cancer from returning, but developed post-mastectomy pain syndrome. Cryoablation, or nerve freezing, helped. Pain Relief for Women With ...

7. Radical mastectomy - Wikipedia

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   Radical mastectomy is a surgical procedure that treats breast cancer by removing the breast and its underlying chest muscle (including pectoralis major and pectoralis minor), and lymph nodes of the axilla (armpit). Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. During the early twentieth century it was primarily treated by surgery, when ...

8. DIEP flap - Wikipedia

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   DIEP flap. A DIEP flap is type of breast reconstruction where blood vessels, fat, and skin from the lower belly are relocated to the chest to rebuild breasts after mastectomy. [1] DIEP stands for the deep inferior epigastric perforator artery, which runs through the abdomen. This is a type of autologous reconstruction, meaning one's own tissue ...

9. Breast surgery - Wikipedia

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   Breast augmentation. Breast reduction. Breast-conserving surgery, a less radical cancer surgery than mastectomy. Lumpectomy. Mastectomy. Mastopexy, or breast lift surgery. Microdochectomy (removal of a lactiferous duct) [1] Surgery for breast abscess, including incision and drainage as well as excision of lactiferous ducts. Surgical breast biopsy.