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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. Breast cancer management - Wikipedia

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   In the management of primary breast cancer, having no axillary lymph nodes removed is linked to increased risk of regrowth of cancer. Treatment with axillary lymph node dissection has been found to give an increased risk of lymphoedema , pain, reduced arm movement and numbness when compared to those treated with sentinel lymph node dissection ...

4. Mastectomy - Wikipedia

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   Modified radical mastectomy: The entire breast tissue is removed along with the axillary contents (fatty tissue and lymph nodes). In contrast to a radical mastectomy, the pectoral muscles are spared. This type of mastectomy is used to examine the lymph nodes because this helps to identify whether the cancer cells have spread beyond the breasts.

5. Breast cancer - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 September 2024. Cancer that originates in mammary glands Medical condition Breast cancer An illustration of breast cancer Specialty Oncology Symptoms A lump in a breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, fluid from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, a red scaly patch of skin on the ...

6. Why ‘Get Organized’ Star Clea Shearer Feels ‘Lucky’ After ...

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   Advances in breast cancer care bring hope. Advances in breast cancer diagnostics and treatment are on the rise, said Baron. Contrast-enhanced mammography can detect small cancers in the breast ...

7. Lymphadenectomy - Wikipedia

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   Lymph node dissection. ICD-9-CM. 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 ...

8. Sentinel lymph node - Wikipedia

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   The axillary lymph nodes drain 75% of the lymph from the breasts((uncited)) and so may be the first lymph nodes affected in breast cancer. The sentinel lymph node is the hypothetical first lymph node or group of nodes draining a cancer. In case of established cancerous dissemination it is postulated that the sentinel lymph nodes are the target ...

9. Lumpectomy - Wikipedia

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   Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) or axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) may be used to determine if the cancer has progressed away from the breast and into other parts of the body. [10] Sentinel lymph node biopsy is the analysis of a few removed sentinel nodes for the presence of cancerous cells.