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2. 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 ...

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. Breast cancer management - Wikipedia

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   The mainstay of breast cancer management is surgery for the local and regional tumor, followed (or preceded) by a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine (hormone) therapy, and targeted therapy. Research is ongoing for the use of immunotherapy in breast cancer management. Management of breast cancer is undertaken by a ...

5. This Breast Cancer Surgery Was 'Better.' But Scientists Say ...

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   But a new study published in JAMA Oncology found that undergoing a double mastectomy—a surgery where both breasts are removed—doesn’t increase the chances of survival after a breast cancer ...

6. Lymphadenectomy - Wikipedia

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   40.2 - 40.5. [edit on Wikidata] Lymphadenectomy, or lymph node dissection, is the surgical removal of one or more groups of lymph nodes. [1] It is almost always performed as part of the surgical management of cancer. In a regional lymph node dissection, some of the lymph nodes in the tumor area are removed; in a radical lymph node dissection ...

7. Invasive carcinoma of no special type - Wikipedia

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   Terminology. Invasive carcinoma NST is a type of breast cancer. It is one of the invasive breast cancers that originates from the breast ductal system, so that it is a type of ductal carcinoma. A defining feature of this ductal carcinoma is that it lacks the "specific differentiating features" of other types of ductal carcinomas.