{"id":2570,"date":"2021-02-09T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","slug":"types-of-breast-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/types-of-breast-surgery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Breast Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1- Excision of the tumor only (Lumpectomy).<\/span>
\n2- Excision of the tumor and lymph node sample or complete nodes excision.<\/span>
\n3- Mastectomy only.<\/span>
\n4- Mastectomy and lymph node sample or complete nodes excision.<\/span>
\n5- Mastectomy and immediate Breast Reconstruction.<\/span>
\n6- Delayed Breast reconstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

\uf076 Non-invasive Breast cancer (DCIS):<\/strong> do not, usually, warrant Lymph nodes <\/span>assessment.<\/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

\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Types of Breast Surgery \u00a0 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. 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":4393,"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\/02\/breast_cancer_screening_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}