Crossword clues for mastectomy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surgical removal of a breast, 1909, from Greek mastos "woman's breast" (see masto-) + -ectomy.
Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical procedure to remove of all or part of a breast; mammectomy.
WordNet
n. surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor
Wikipedia
Mastectomy (from Greek "breast" and ektomia "cutting out") is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely.
A mastectomy is usually carried out to treat breast cancer. In some cases, people believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically, that is, as a preventive measure. It is also the medical procedure carried out to remove cancerous tissues. Alternatively, some patients can choose to have a wide local excision, also known as a lumpectomy, an operation in which a small volume of breast tissue containing the tumor and a surrounding margin of healthy tissue is removed to conserve the breast.
Both mastectomy and lumpectomy are referred to as "local therapies" for breast cancer, targeting the area of the tumor, as opposed to systemic therapies, such as chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or immunotherapy.
Traditionally, in the case of breast cancer, the whole breast was removed. Currently the decision to do the mastectomy is based on various factors, including breast size, number of lesions, biologic aggressiveness of a breast cancer, the availability of adjuvant radiation, and the willingness of the patient to accept higher rates of tumor recurrences after lumpectomy and radiation. Outcome studies comparing mastectomy to lumpectomy with radiation have suggested that routine radical mastectomy surgeries will not always prevent later distant secondary tumors arising from micro-metastases prior to discovery, diagnosis, and operation.
Usage examples of "mastectomy".
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The night before going into hospital for her simple mastectomy, although there was nothing simple about it, nothing simple at all, my mother standing at the window of the old house, looking out at the empty street beyond the net curtains, waiting for my old man.
And I moved to go over to him, to take his arm and make him listen while I told him about what was happening to my mum in the hospital down the road that morning, to tell him about the surgery, and to use words like mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, lymphoedema, until I saw him squirm with shame at his cowardice.
Some of his more witty mastectomy patients referred to the procedure as a boob job and a tummy tuck at the same time.
There was pain in her chest and abdominal areas, but she was happily aware of a return to normal roundness where her flat mastectomy scar had been.
She had thought that part of her life was over after the mastectomy, and here was this rather good looking man flirting with her.
Or was her mother just feeling self conscious about her mastectomy and unsure of herself?
The Czech professor in your story wonders why he gags at the straight-in-the-eye sight of a mastectomy bra.
Anna held down two jobs following her mastectomy, while the children were growing from toddlers to preteens.
Well, they pulled out every estrogen source in her body-- full mastectomy, the lymph nodes, ovaries --and she had an adrenalectomy!
The exploratory surgery had turned into a mastectomy without her knowledge.
The mastectomy was performed on December 14, 1989, a week after the lumpectomy.
When Anna discovered at the time of her mastectomy in 1989 that the lymph nodes in the armpit and surrounding area were cancer free, she felt a gush of relief.
I went to talk to Roma Funicelli about her possible mastectomy later that morning.
If there was one thing that was prominent about Ann Louise, it was her figure, and the notion of a mastectomy seemed like a desecration.