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(RA-dih-kul ma-STEK-toh-mee)
| | Surgery for breast cancer in which the breast, chest muscles, and all of the lymph nodes under the arm are removed. For many years, this was the breast cancer operation used most often, but it is used rarely now. Doctors consider radical mastectomy only when the tumor has spread to the chest muscles. Also called Halsted radical mastectomy. |
| Previous Definitions: | radiation therapy, radical cystectomy, radical hysterectomy, radical local excision, radical lymph node dissection | | Next Definitions: | radical nephrectomy, radical perineal prostatectomy, radical prostatectomy, radical retropubic prostatectomy, radical vulvectomy |
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