Breast Surgery

Breast-conserving Surgery

A lumpectomy removes just a small portion of the breast that includes the area where the cancer is located. While it is often completed in an outpatient setting, you may have to receive other forms of treatment along with it. For example, you typically need radiation therapy to destroy any remaining cancer cells in the breast. In some cases, chemotherapy and radiation accompany lumpectomy.

Revolutionary Approach

If you’ve been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, you may be able to complete surgery and radiation at the same time with Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT). Immediately after a tumor has been surgically removed, a radiation oncologist delivers a concentrated dose of radiation directly to the tumor’s location. Accelerated treatment. Depending on the type, location and stage of your breast cancer, breast IORT eliminates or reduces how many outpatient radiation therapy sessions you need.

Fewer side effects. In addition to avoiding healthy surrounding tissues and critical organs, the targeted dose may decrease negative and unwanted side effects that can occur.

Improved convenience. By limiting or diminishing stress, hospital stays, travel and disruptions in daily life, breast IORT helps you focus less on cancer and instead move on with your life.

Removing Breast Cancer

A mastectomy removes the entire breast, and depending on where the cancer is found and the severity of it, some women will have both breasts removed. There are many different types of mastectomies with varying degrees of removal.

• A nipple sparing mastectomy removes all the breast tissue but leaves the breast skin and nipple area intact. For eligible patients whose cancer has not spread to the nipple area, a nipple-sparing mastectomy is a great option that provides considerable benefits for women included the breast looking almost unchanged.
• A modified radical mastectomy removes the whole breast, a portion of the lymph nodes under your arm and often the lining over your chest muscles. A small portion of muscle may need to be removed in select cases depending on the location of the cancer. 
• A simple mastectomy removes the whole breast and often the lining over your chest muscles.
• A radical mastectomy is completed in extremely rare cases and removes the whole breast, most to all of the lymph nodes under your arm, the lining over your chest muscles and the chest wall muscles under the breast bone.