How To Use Lumpectomy In A Sentence
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If these nodes do not have cancer, you will most likely not have to have any more surgery after your lumpectomy.
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Her treatment was a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by a lumpectomy.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Medical history included a lumpectomy of the same breast 20 years earlier.
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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.
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Most women with early breast cancer get offered a lumpectomy with radiation or a mastectomy.
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A fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mass was performed followed by a lumpectomy with lymph node sampling.
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Following lumpectomy, local recurrence is usually at the surgical site and can be treated with mastectomy.
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Typically, when a woman has breast cancer, she undergoes a lumpectomy to excise the cancer.
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I thought that... maybe you thought I only had the tumor removed, a lumpectomy.
THE SAVING GRACES
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One winter day an anxious young woman underwent a lumpectomy of her breast.
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Following a mastectomy or lumpectomy, drains and drainage bags can be carried in the pouch.
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She made a positive choice to have a mastectomy rather than a lumpectomy to ensure the cancer did not spread.
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An early stage cancer will probably involve a lumpectomy, removing the lump and the breast tissue around it.
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Due to lack of diagnostic information, the patient received cancer therapy that included a lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, and radiation therapy.
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Simple mastectomy is removal of the breast only. Lumpectomy is removal of the tumour only.
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Now not everybody is a candidate for what we call breast conservation, that is just doing a lumpectomy and radiation.
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The key finding is that for women with apparently limited disease before lumpectomy and what's called a positive sentinel node, taking out all the cancerous nodes from the axilla armpit has no survival advantage after five years.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: New Study Supports Less Surgery For Breast Cancer
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But then right after I came out, I think I found a lump in my breast that we thought was cancer, and I had to get a lumpectomy.
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It is important to remember that, at this point, the patient is facing a lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy with possible axillary dissection.
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The five-year risk of cancer returning after a lumpectomy drops from 26% to 7% if the radiation treatment is used, a University of Oxford team found.
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She underwent a lumpectomy and completed radiation therapy, 9 months and 6 months, respectively, prior to the development of the scalp lesions.
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Simple mastectomy is removal of the breast only. Lumpectomy is removal of the tumour only.
