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  • Thumbnail for Radical mastectomy
    Radical mastectomy is a surgical procedure that treats breast cancer by removing the breast and its underlying chest muscle (including pectoralis major...
    15 KB (1,807 words) - 19:22, 11 February 2024
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    radiation. Outcome studies comparing mastectomy to lumpectomy with radiation have suggested that routine radical mastectomy surgeries will not always prevent...
    39 KB (4,516 words) - 19:17, 17 September 2024
  • general surgeon] devised extensive cancer operations including extended radical mastectomy, radical gastrectomy and pancreatectomy, pelvic exenteration, the...
    12 KB (1,354 words) - 22:44, 29 September 2024
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    Halsted radical mastectomy in 1960 to treat her malign breast cancer.: 39–40  The US oncologist Jerome Urban promoted super radical mastectomies, taking...
    135 KB (15,182 words) - 15:11, 20 October 2024
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    long-standing lymphedema. The incidence of angiosarcoma five years after radical mastectomy is estimated to be 0.45% in surviving patients. Lymphedema is also...
    55 KB (5,868 words) - 05:10, 2 September 2024
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    radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy, than by radical mastectomy. The oncology journal and website OncLive described Fisher's research...
    40 KB (5,091 words) - 02:52, 22 September 2024
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    recommendation against the routine use of the Halsted radical mastectomy in favor of simple mastectomies and lumpectomies. The breast cancer movement has supported...
    68 KB (8,473 words) - 23:16, 27 September 2024
  • for gigantomastia, and the separate mastectomies done for breast cancer. Top surgery involves more than a mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer...
    19 KB (1,913 words) - 21:28, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frances Burney
    leading physicians, and a year later, on 30 September 1811, underwent a mastectomy performed by "7 men in black, Dr. Larrey, M. Dubois, Dr. Moreau, Dr. Aumont...
    60 KB (7,650 words) - 15:22, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
    while she was getting her post-doctoral fellowship. She underwent a radical mastectomy where all of her right breast and all of the lymph nodes from her...
    34 KB (4,016 words) - 00:17, 25 September 2024
  • surgery can be a lumpectomy (removal of the lump only), a mastectomy, or a modified radical mastectomy. Lymph nodes are often included in the scope of breast...
    53 KB (6,744 words) - 05:58, 19 October 2024
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    guarantee invasive carcinoma. That being said, the historical approach of radical mastectomy (surgical removal of entire breast and axillary lymph nodes) has been...
    20 KB (2,419 words) - 09:59, 6 September 2024
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    systemic adjuvant medical therapy. Surgical treatment ranges from radical mastectomy to breast conserving procedures such as lumpectomy. Patients at risk...
    32 KB (3,667 words) - 14:53, 12 September 2024
  • surgery". The American William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922) pioneered the radical mastectomy, and designed a residency training program for American surgeons....
    12 KB (1,367 words) - 12:36, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bette Davis
    series Hotel, Davis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Within two weeks of her surgery, she had four strokes which caused paralysis...
    112 KB (12,722 words) - 07:23, 6 October 2024
  • reconstruction is a type of autologous-tissue breast reconstruction applied after mastectomy for breast cancer, without the emplacement of a breast implant prosthesis...
    31 KB (3,992 words) - 11:46, 7 July 2024
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    to later give cancer (Latin for crab) its name. He advised against radical mastectomy involving the pectoral muscles, and warned that surgery should only...
    77 KB (8,696 words) - 17:22, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lili Chookasian
    of her loved ones she decided to fight the cancer. She underwent a radical mastectomy, which was further complicated by a widespread infection that required...
    16 KB (1,973 words) - 11:33, 13 February 2023
  • Douglas (March 27, 2024). "Tuesday Ratings: NBC Sitcoms Night Court and Extended Family Conclude Their Seasons On-Par with Recent". Programming Insider...
    323 KB (7,437 words) - 10:14, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jacqueline Susann
    age of 44, Susann was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a radical mastectomy. During her recuperation, she made a pact with God: if she were given...
    44 KB (5,368 words) - 17:50, 24 September 2024
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