BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY
Get the best breast conservation surgery Houston has to offer with Dr. Miltenburg and the team at Breast Health Institute.
BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY HOUSTON
Clinical trials published in the 1980s taught us that in women with early stage breast cancer (stage 0, 1 and 2) that had a lumpectomy together with breast radiation therapy had the same survival rate as women who underwent a mastectomy. So the phrase Breast Conservation Surgery was coined.
Breast conserving surgery has 2 or 3 components, depending on the type of cancer. In women with DCIS (noninvasive or stage 0 cancer) there are two components: lumpectomy and radiation. In women with early-stage invasive cancer (stage 1 or 2) there are 3 components: lumpectomy, sentinel lymph node biopsy, and radiation.
