Surgery is the cornerstone for achieving a cure in breast cancer. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are useful in preventing breast cancer from coming back in the breast or other areas of the body. They do not by themselves cure the patient of cancer.

Surgery is the primary treatment of breast cancer, and it serves three goals…

Lumpectomy is one of many names for a breast cancer surgical procedure where cancer is removed with a margin of normal tissue. It has also been called a partial mastectomy, wide excision or wide local excision (WLE), breast conserving surgery but the procedure is, in essence, very much the same.