Breast Cancer Treatment | Skin Cancer Surgery

Following are the most often performed surgical interventions to treat Breast cancer:

Breast Conserving Surgery (BCS)
Type of surgery where the cancerous lump is removed with a rim of surrounding normal breast tissue, and the remaining breast tissue is preserved.

With recent advances in Plastic surgical techniques, the remaining breast tissue is refashioned to ensure better cosmesis, which is called Oncoplasty. Occasionally, a pedicled flap may be required to fill in the defect caused by the removal of the cancerous lump.
Mastectomy
It is the removal of the entire breast, its internal anatomical structures like lobules, ducts, fatty tissue and the overlying skin, including the nipple and areola.
Modified Radical Mastectomy

Removal of the entire breast with nipple and areola complex and the regional axillary lymph nodes.
Breast reconstruction

Many women who have surgery to remove an entire breast have the option of having the shape of the removed breast rebuilt – Reconstructive surgery

Surgery to reconstruct the breasts can be done at the time of the mastectomy or after breast cancer treatment has been completed. This can be done months or even years after the mastectomy.

Women who choose to have breast reconstructive surgery have several options :

Breasts can be rebuilt using implants (saline or silicone).
They can also be rebuilt using autologous tissue (that is, tissue from elsewhere in the body).
Sometimes both implants and autologous tissue are used to rebuild the breast.

Sentinel Node Biopsy

Surgical procedure used to determine whether cancer has spread beyond a primary tumor into the lymphatic system. A single-dye or a dual-dye technique may be used to perform the above procedure. Post identification, the nodes are removed and analyzed for the spread of cancer by frozen section or routine histopathology.
Axillary lymph node dissection

Removal of lymph nodes in the armpit (axilla). This procedure is usually performed once the spread of cancer has been confirmed through the Sentinel Node Biopsy procedure.