radical mastectomy

American  

[rad-ik-uhl-ma-stek-tuh-mee] / ˈræd ɪk əl mæˈstɛk tə mi /

noun

plural

radical mastectomies

1. Surgery. a mastectomy that includes the entire breast as well as the pectoral muscles and the lymph nodes of the armpit.

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radical mastectomy Scientific  

1. See under mastectomy

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Example Sentences

In the May, at just over four months pregnant, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a radical mastectomy and lymph node clearance.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2023

Within days of his diagnosis, surgeons performed a radical mastectomy at the Motion Picture and Television hospital outside of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Among the project’s first studies was one testing the efficacy of the radical mastectomy — a line of inquiry that at the time, Dr. Fisher said, was “tantamount to heresy.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

Though she didn’t say so in the book, her own treatment for breast cancer involved a radical mastectomy and intense chemical warfare to stop the invader.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014

They put her in a hospital, where Marie had a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve