Breast Biopsy incision performed through a small incision in the skin.
Breast biopsy excision performed through an incision in the skin large enough to remove the area of concern.
Needle Localization Breast Biopsy performed at the hospital. The area is located while you are in the mammography machine a wire is placed in the suspicious area, you are then taken to surgery where an incision is made following the wire and taking tissue around the end of the wire. This is done when you can’t feel the suspicious area.
Stereotactic breast biopsy is performed with you laying on your stomach on a bed or table that has openings for your breasts to fall through the abnormal area is localized by mammography and several samples of tissue are taken through a small incision in the breast.
Breast cyst aspiration can be done by a needle with local anesthesia.
Breast biopsies can also be done with ultrasound guidance.
Breast Lumpectomy involves removing the cancerous area of the breast plus a non-cancerous area of breast tissue.
Breast lumpectomy with axillary lymph node dissection is a lumpectomy plus removing lymph nodes in the axilla of the affected breast for sampling.
Breast lumpectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy is a lumpectomy with injection of a radioactive tracer and a blue dye in the area just before surgery helping to identify specific lymph nodes draining the area where the breast cancer arose. These nodes then undergo microscopic testing to determine with the highest possible accuracy, the stage of the breast cancer.
Mastectomy this operation is performed for large or extensive tumors, or for people unable or unwilling to under go radiation therapy. It removes the nipple, surrounding skin and all the underlying breast tissue. Additionally some lymph nodes under the arm are sampled.
Excision Milk Ducts removal of the milk ducts of the breast.
