A recent study highlighted that sexual well-being among lumpectomy patients actually improved within six months after surgery ...

WEDNESDAY, March 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Opting for a lumpectomy during breast cancer treatment can protect a woman’s future sex life, a new study suggests. Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) is ...

A lumpectomy plus radiation is very effective for treating stage zero cancer, but new research suggests that active monitoring may be just as good.

Lumpectomies and mastectomies differ in the amount of tissue removed. A lumpectomy removes only the tumor and a small portion of the breast. A mastectomy removes all of the breast tissue ...

Research shows removing both breasts doesn't improve survival rates for most breast cancer patients, despite many women ...

Diagnosis: Stage T1bN0M0 left breast cancer. Management: Lumpectomy, sentinel lymph-node biopsy and fractionated partial breast irradiation using 3-dimensional conformal technique. The ...

Here, Michelle Hill, 31, who lives with her partner, Cliff, and son Caleb in Swanley, Kent, and works for a London investment firm, tells us about having a lumpectomy, and a leading breast cancer ...

Patients with localized breast cancer who undergo lumpectomy generally also receive radiotherapy to prevent local recurrence. Because tamoxifen also reduces the incidence of local recurrence ...

For most people with breast cancer, surgery will be part of their treatment plan. Your options may include a mastectomy or a lumpectomy. At MSK, breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction often ...

Or, you may have it before, during, or after surgery or chemotherapy. Your care team may suggest breast cancer radiation therapy after a lumpectomy or after a mastectomy. To understand how radiation ...

Surgeons also began studying lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy as an option to radical mastectomy. Among those visionary breast cancer researchers: Bernard Fisher, MD, director of the ...