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.

Breast cancer is a disease which may not only rob a woman of her life; it may also deprive her of the very organs that define her femininity and sexuality. In breast cancer treatment Singapore doctors are all too familiar with the psychological blow that breast cancer inflicts upon a woman.