Mastectomy: With a simple mastectomy, the surgeon removes the entire breast and possibly a few lymph nodes under your arm. If you get a modified radical mastectomy, your entire breast is removed ...

A less traumatic and more common procedure is the modified radical mastectomy (MRM). The doctor removes your breast, including the skin, breast tissue, areola, and nipple, and most of the lymph ...

That includes the breast tissue, nipple, areola, and most of the skin covering the breast. This surgery is also called a simple mastectomy. Modified radical mastectomy This surgery combines a total ...

In some cases, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and/or targeted therapy also follow a modified radical mastectomy. This is the most extensive and most disfiguring form of mastectomy a woman can receive.

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. The goal of a mastectomy is to remove all breast tissue ...

A modified radical mastectomy involves the removal of both breasts’ lymph nodes in the underarm area. It does not include the removal of the chest muscles underneath the breast. Doctors advise ...

India's first life-saving dual surgery combining a heart bypass surgery (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting) and breast cancer ...