Breast Cancer Removal. Mastectomy is breast cancer surgery that removes the entire breast. In the case of breast cancer surgery your doctor may remove the cancer by removing the whole breast mastectomy or by removing only the portion of your breast that contains the cancer and some of the surrounding tissue lumpectomy.
Having radiation to the chest wall and armpit after surgery. If a woman chooses mastectomy over breast conserving surgery for personal reasons. For a while the standard treatment for breast cancer was a radical mastectomy with total.
When a woman cannot be treated with breast conserving surgery lumpectomy which spares most of the breast.
An assessment of the lymph nodes in your armpit. Breast conserving surgery also called a lumpectomy quadrantectomy partial mastectomy or segmental mastectomy is a. Having radiation to the chest wall and armpit after surgery. A mastectomy is a way to treat breast cancer by surgically removing a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
