News tagged with lumpectomy
DCIS patients who get invasive breast cancer have higher mortality
DCIS—who later develop invasive breast cancer in the same breast are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who do not develop invasive disease, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of ...
Mar 12, 2011 |
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Breast cancer survivors often rate post-treatment breast appearance only 'fair'
A third of breast cancer survivors who received the breast-conserving treatments lumpectomy and radiation rate the appearance of their post-treatment breast as only "fair" or "poor" in comparison to their untreated breast, ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Overtreating earliest cancers -- but which ones?
(AP) -- D.J. Soviero wanted the least treatment that would beat back her small, early-stage breast cancer, but her first doctor insisted she had only one option: tumor removal followed by radiation and chemotherapy.
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Skin lesions in breast cancer patients could lead to tumor, more study needed
Physicians have long noticed that breast cancer patients who have had surgery or radiation therapy have an heightened risk of developing angiosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that originates in the lining of the blood vessels. ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Five-day breast cancer treatment now available
UC Davis Cancer Center now offers a new generation of radiation therapy that transforms a woman's breast cancer radiation treatment experience.
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Study challenges routine use of MRI scans to evaluate breast cancer
Reviewing the records of 577 breast cancer patients, Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers found that women with newly diagnosed breast cancer who receive a breast MRI are more likely to receive a mastectomy after their diagnosis ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Lumpectomy
Lumpectomy (aka: tylectomy) is a common surgical procedure designed to remove a discrete lump, usually a benign tumor or breast cancer, from an affected man or woman's breast. As the tissue removed is generally quite limited and the procedure relatively non-invasive, compared to a mastectomy, a lumpectomy is considered a viable means of "breast conservation" or "breast preservation" surgery with all the attendant physical and emotional advantages of such an approach.
According to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, lumpectomy may be performed for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), for invasive ductal carcinoma, or for other conditions.
For more information about Lumpectomy, read the full article at
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