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lumpectomy
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lumpectomy
the surgical removal of a tumour in a breast
lumpectomy [ləm′pek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of a tumor in the breast along with a small amount of surrounding tissue.
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Lumpectomies were the treatment of choice made by better-educated women over 75.
Deciding breast cancer treatment by Women's Health Letter
Published in the medical journal Cancer, the report suggested that it was even possible that those with lumpectomies might have a slightly greater five-year survival rate than the mastectomy subjects.
Lumpectomy or mastectomy? by Brown, Edwin W. / Medical Update
Increasingly, physicians in the United States and abroad recommend lumpectomies for small breast tumors, especially when no evidence exists the cancer has spread.
New treatment may reduce breast surgeries by Weiss, R. / Science News
 
 
 
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