Sentences with phrase «at lumpectomy»
«So I don't look at lumpectomy wishfully.
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In a subsequent study underway at Northwestern, the investigators noticed that a patient, who had had a lumpectomy, removed her sterile strips holding the wound together instead of just changing the gauze.
«Currently, approximately 1 in 5 women who undergo breast - conserving surgery, also known as lumpectomy, require repeat surgery due to inadequate excision of the tumor during the initial surgical procedure,» explains Arnie D. Purushotham, MD, professor at King's College London, UK.
Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.
«Focal therapy is the male version of a lumpectomy for breast cancer,» said study author Scott Eggener, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Their goal is to markedly reduce the chance that cancer cells are present at the edge of the lumpectomy specimen, thereby avoiding the expense and discomfort of repeat surgery to ensure that the tumor has been completely removed.
Following lumpectomy alone, a patient typically «has roughly a 30 % to 40 % risk of breast cancer coming back in the same breast, depending on the size of the tumor and the histology [grade],» says Dennis E. Hallahan, MD, chairman of the department of radiation oncology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of June and had a lumpectomy in August.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of June and had a lumpectomy in August.