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 mastectomy is a way to treat breast cancer by surgically removing a breast and sometimes nearby tissues. For a while, the standard treatment for breast cancer was a radical mastectomy ...

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.

And she discovered a treatment that was equally effective and much less invasive than radical mastectomy, sparing hundreds of thousands from that life-altering surgery. Lost Women of Science is ...

RADICAL mastectomy, long the standard and generally accepted treatment for cancer of the breast, has recently been criticized by McWhirter 1,2 and others 3–6 as being often ineffective and even ...

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 ...