Sentences with phrase «lumpectomies rather»

In April 2017, during the criminal case against Mr Paterson, the court heard how he had opted to carry out invasive lumpectomies rather than biopsies and in some cases

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.

The main goal of pre-operative (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy for breast cancer is to shrink tumors so women can have a lumpectomy rather than a more invasive mastectomy.