bisectomey?

Answer 1

What the heck is that? Do you have a question?

Michigan4life: Why do you assume she is asking about mastectomy?

Answer 2

You mean Mastectomy

For a long time, a procedure called a radical mastectomy was the only treatment available to women with breast cancer. No matter what stage of breast cancer you had, mastectomy was your only option. Catching a cancer early didn't give you the benefit of having a less radical, more cosmetically acceptable treatment option. Things have changed a great deal since then. Mastectomy no longer has to be as extensive, scarring, or disfiguring. After 25 years of follow-up, research has shown that more extensive surgery is not necessarily better. Mastectomy can actually be different operations for different people, in different situations.

In a "simple" or "total" mastectomy, the surgeon removes the entire breast but does not take out any axillary lymph nodes (nodes in the underarm area, also called the axilla). No muscles are removed from beneath your breast. Occasionally, lymph nodes may be removed because they are actually located within the breast tissue taken during surgery. A total mastectomy is appropriate for women with ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS, and for women seeking prophylactic mastectomies—that is, breast removal in order to prevent any possibility of breast cancer occurring.