All > Medicine > Cancer - An operation to remove the breast
cancer but not the breast itself. Types of breast-sparing
surgery include lumpectomy (removal of the lump), quadrantectomy
(removal of one quarter, or quadrant, of the breast), and
segmental mastectomy (removal of the cancer as well as some of
the breast tissue around the tumor and the lining over the chest
muscles below the tumor). Also called breast-conserving surgery.
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ablation, amputation, anterior pelvic exenteration, breast-
conserving surgery, castration, circumcision, excision,
exenteration, margin, unresectable, unresected, Whipple
procedure, wide local excision