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Lumpectomy or mastectomy - the advantages and disadvantages

Today, women with breast cancer have a choice between the complete removal of the affected gland (mastectomy) or conserving surgery (lumpectomy) followed by a course of radiotherapy. Although most women prefer to choose a less mutilation, the choice of surgery depends on many factors, which include:

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Prophylactic mastectomy for breast cancer

In the past, surgery for breast cancer meant the complete removal of the body, no matter what the size of the tumor. For a long surgery - is the standard treatment for breast cancer. But in the last few years this situation has changed. Currently, we have the results of numerous long-term studies that show that the radical maste ... Read more »

Local recurrence of breast cancer

In two thirds of cases where cancer recurrence occurs in the same breast, the cancer is found usually in the same place, or immediately next to this place. The remaining third of the recurrence of cancer - a new tumor. Also, if the tumor has arisen in another area of the breast, where it was cancer, or in the opposite breast, even in th ... Read more »

The regional metastasis of breast cancer

Usually during surgery for breast cancer surgeon can simultaneously remove the lymph nodes in the armpit area. However, metastases can occur in other groups of lymph nodes:

• in some of the remaining axillary lymph nodes,
  
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Factors influencing the course of breast cancer recurrence

Know that if you revealed a tumor recurrence or metastasis, at present you do not have to be subjected to treatments that have been in the recent past. Some women, this problem can literally "unsettle". They begin to ask different questions, for example, was it worth it to spend just a mastectomy instead of breast conservation, ... Read more »

Recurrent breast cancer Treatments

Modern oncology offers a variety of effective methods of treatment of breast cancer recurrence and metastases. These methods include both local treatment and systemic.

Treatment of recurrence in the chest wall

If the recurrence of the tumor arose in the place where the mastectomy was performed (ie complete removal of the breast with the underlying pectoral muscles and axillary lymph nodes), it is a relapse in the chest wall. Indeed, in this place after a mastectomy is not no breast tissue, but only the chest wall. Usually the operation is performed fi ... Read more »