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Mastectomy |
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In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. Mastectomy is usually done to combat breast cancer; in some cases, women believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically, that is, to prevent cancer rather than treat it. In contrast, in a lumpectomy, a lump of tissue rather than the whole breast is removed. Traditionally, in the case of breast cancer, the whole breast was removed. Often the m ...
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Mastectomy Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
- Dept. of Labor
- National Lymphedema Network
- breastcancer.org http://www.breastcancer.org/
- Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization http://www.y-me.org/
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- Federal Citizen Information Center, GSA http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
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