Sentences with phrase «lumpectomy with»

Lumpectomy with radiation versus mastectomy.

Non-lactational mastitis occurs in women with weakened immune systems, including women who have had lumpectomies with radiation therapy and women with diabetes.

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Just as with a lumpectomy, this is a minor breast surgery and generally does not affect the ability to breastfeed, unless the incision is near the areola and nipple.

It's definitely possible to make a full, healthy supply of breast milk with breast implants or after a minor breast surgery such as a lumpectomy.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

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 total number of women who had mastectomies, including those for whom mastectomy was the first course of action as well as those who had failed breast conservation, was 2,479; of these, 510 (21 %) had mastectomies for tumors smaller than 20 mm in diameter, which would normally have been better treated with a lumpectomy.

Lang has since bolstered those findings with a trial conducted among 200 patients who underwent a breast biopsy or lumpectomy for breast cancer.

A Phase III Clinical Trial Comparing Trastuzumab Given Concurrently with Radiation Therapy and Radiation Therapy Alone for Women with HER2 - Positive Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Resected by Lumpectomy

Treatment of early stage breast cancer with lumpectomy, axillary dissection, and radiation therapy is considered by many to be relatively contraindicated in heavy women or women with large or

There was no euphoria either for San Franciscan Hendy Dayton, 48, who was diagnosed with stage II cancer and endured a lumpectomy, 16 weeks of chemo, and 35 days of radiation.

Next Page: If one doctor doesn't have the answer, keep looking [pagebreak] If one doctor doesn't have the answer, keep looking When Ann Dosch, 58, of Millersville, Pa., had an exploratory lumpectomy in March 2007, she discovered that she had breast cancer and was treated with another lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy.

«My doctor told me, «With a lumpectomy we can preserve the feeling of having a whole breast without feeling you're not going to get all the cancer cells.»»

She went for her breast surgeon's suggestion instead — to try to shrink the tumor with chemotherapy to make it small enough for a lumpectomy.

Elaine Cantin was diagnosed with breast cancer and within one week was rushed into have a surgical lumpectomy.

I was just diagnosed with DCIS, going to have lumpectomy.

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.