{"id":2504,"date":"2021-02-05T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","slug":"types-of-breast-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/types-of-breast-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Breast Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Types of Breast Surgery<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n


\nThe general rule is<\/strong>:
\n\uf0b7 Excision of the tumor + Radiation therapy = Mastectomy
\n\uf0b7 Sentinel node biopsy (node sample) or complete excision of the lymph
\nnodes.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/bt_text][bt_text]<\/p>\n

1- Excision of the tumor only (Lumpectomy).<\/span><\/strong>
\n2- Excision of the tumor and lymph node sample or complete nodes excision.<\/span><\/strong>
\n3- Mastectomy only.<\/span><\/strong>
\n4- Mastectomy and lymph node sample or complete nodes excision.<\/span><\/strong>
\n5- Mastectomy and immediate Breast Reconstruction.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

6- Delayed Breast reconstruction<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[\/bt_text][bt_text]<\/p>\n

\uf076 Non-invasive Breast cancer (DCIS):<\/strong> do not, usually, warrant Lymph nodes<\/span>
\nassessment.<\/span>
\n\uf076 Invasive Breast Cancer:<\/strong> warrants assessment of the lymph nodes.<\/span>
\n\uf076 The general rule is to preserve the breast except certain situations:<\/strong><\/span>
\n– Large tumor size in relation to the breast size.<\/span>
\n– Inflammatory Breast Cancer.<\/span>
\n– Recurrent Breast Cancer.<\/span>
\n– ? Patients younger than 30, rather have Mastectomy.<\/span>
\n– Patients wish<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  • \uf076 The rule in dealing with the Lymph nodes is:<\/strong> Sentinel node biopsy<\/span>
    \n(assessment of the first node only) with radiotherapy to, or excision of<\/span>
    \nthe rest of the node if it proves to be positive.<\/span>
    \n\uf076 Few cases warrant full excision of the lymph nodes from outset.<\/strong><\/span>
    \n\uf076 Immediate Breast Reconstruction<\/strong> should be offered to most patients,<\/span>
    \nfew exceptions cannot be offered immediate reconstruction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Types of Breast Surgery The general rule is: \uf0b7 Excision of the tumor + Radiation therapy = Mastectomy \uf0b7 Sentinel node biopsy (node sample) or complete excision of the lymph nodes. [\/bt_text][bt_text] 1- Excision of the tumor only (Lumpectomy). 2- Excision of the tumor and lymph node sample or complete nodes excision. 3- Mastectomy only. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1659133.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}