Sentences with phrase «underwent lumpectomy»

She underwent a lumpectomy and 36 radiation treatments and then went on the road to urge more postmenopausal women to get tested.

Three - quarters of patients had a tumor between 2 cm or smaller in size; 62 % underwent a lumpectomy, and a total of 73 % of the cohort did undergo a SLN biopsy.

They analyzed bacterial DNA found in breast tissue samples from 58 women who were undergoing lumpectomies or mastectomies for either benign or cancerous tumors, as well as from 23 healthy women who had undergone breast reductions or enhancements.

It's an advance that could benefit the more than 170,000 women who undergo a lumpectomy each year.

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To treat it, Nixon had a lumpectomy and underwent more than six weeks of radiation, Fox News previously reported.

«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.

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

We watch her undergo chemo, a (failed) lumpectomy, a double mastectomy, radiation and a brain tumor scare.