Your recovery timeline is affected by these factors and many others, including the type of lumpectomy performed and the stage of cancer. Following your surgeon's guidelines on follow-up care will ...

This method lets us make the breast look better, without the need for a mastectomy. Common questions about lumpectomies What is lumpectomy recovery like? Recovery from a lumpectomy is not the same for ...

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 ...

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