[
US
/ˌɫəmˈpɛktəmi/
]
NOUN
- surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer
How To Use lumpectomy In A Sentence
- If these nodes do not have cancer, you will most likely not have to have any more surgery after your lumpectomy.
- Her treatment was a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by a lumpectomy.
- The new indication is for Herceptin, in combination with other cancer drugs, for the treatment of HER2 positive breast cancer after surgery ( lumpectomy or mastectomy).
- In addition, the cancer was no more likely to metastasise in women who had had a lumpectomy than in women who had had a mastectomy.
- The researchers urge general surgeons to include discussion of all surgical options lumpectomy, mastectomy and mastectomy with reconstruction at a point when a patient is considering her choices.
- Medical history included a lumpectomy of the same breast 20 years earlier.
- She sought a second opinion, and was told about lumpectomy, in which just the cancerous lump is excised, and she chose to have that procedure.
- Most women with early breast cancer get offered a lumpectomy with radiation or a mastectomy.
- A fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mass was performed followed by a lumpectomy with lymph node sampling.
- Following lumpectomy, local recurrence is usually at the surgical site and can be treated with mastectomy.
