Meanings
alternative lumpectomised
- not comparablemedicineHaving a lump excised, usually in the breast.
1991, Barbara Fowble, Breast Cancer Treatment: A Comprehensive Guide to Management, Mosby Elsevier Health Science The analysis then investigated whether mammographic and clinical detection capabilities were altered within, and outside of, the lumpectomized quadrant.
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For both lumpectomized and mastectomized patients, lifelong follow-up with periodic physical and mammographic examinations is obviously essential. In DCIS and LCIS alike, most, if not all, of the issues we have discussed need more study.
1989, Hospital Practice“Possibly,” replied Spencer in a dismissive tone, “And of course I'm occasionally forced to do one, but personally I think it's a fad, and it'll pass when all these lumpectomized patients start coming back in droves with their metastatic cancers. […]”
1998, Francis Roe, Francis J. C. Roe, Under the Knife, Onyx Books, →ISBNThe NSABPB-06 trial found no difference in overall survival in women with stage Iand II breast cancer who underwent either SM, SM with radiation, and TM, but radiation decreased local recurrence in the lumpectomized breast.
2017, Alden H Harken, Abernathy's Surgical Secrets E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 303
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