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...research suggests. The experimental treatment could make lumpectomy -- a breast-saving type of cancer surgery in which only...who are diagnosed with early breast cancer decide against a lumpectomy because they cannot spend six weeks receiving daily radiation...
...percent curable and my doctors expect a complete recovery following treatment," she wrote. The treatment will include a lumpectomy, a breast-saving type of cancer surgery in which only the lump is removed, followed by six weeks of radiation therapy...
...women with the form of breast cancer, called DCIS, are treated solely with surgical removal, most often breast-preserving lumpectomy, federal data show. Based on the new findings, Harvard-affiliated hospitals are routinely giving radiation therapy to...
...more commonly associated with prostate cancer treatment. A few breast cancer doctors have been using it as a follow-up to lumpectomy -- removal of only the tumor -- and recent studies show it's effective. Unlike standard external radiation, brachytherapy...
...1980s, the less-disfiguring procedure, often called a lumpectomy, was widely accepted on an equal footing with mastectomy...disease -- the earliest stage -- are reasonable candidates for lumpectomy, according to Morrow. Yet only 68 percent chose it in a...
...follow-up treatment is considered one reason many women whose breast tumors are small enough and early enough to be removed via lumpectomy instead choose a more disfiguring mastectomy. With MammoSite, "what you have is an easier way of performing brachytherapy...
...suspicious lump in mid-June and a subsequent mammogram revealed a small tumor in her left breast. She underwent a successful lumpectomy at Washington's Sibley Hospital two weeks ago, she told the paper. Roberts, 58, had already announced her departure...
...what you should do, whether you should have a mastectomy or lumpectomy. She went to some of my appointments with me and she helped...at age 40 during her first mammogram. Boehland underwent a lumpectomy with chemotherapy and radiation to fight the cancer. Laska...
...who had to tell me it was cancer," she said. She had a lumpectomy, which didn't remove all of the cancerous cells, so then...lump was found during a baseline mammogram, and she had a lumpectomy, removal of lymph nodes, chemotherapy and radiation...
...either to have a mastectomy to remove the cancerous breast or have a lumpectomy to remove the cancer in the breast followed by radiation treatments. Bengtson said the lumpectomy is more common today, but both procedures are equally effective...