| 词汇 | mastectomy |
| 释义 | mastectomy noun[ C ] uk /mæsˈtek.tə.mi/ us /mæsˈtek.tə.mi/ a medical operation to remove a woman's breast: 乳房切除术 a partial mastectomy (= when part of the breast is removed)部分乳房切除 a double mastectomy (= when both breasts are removed)双乳切除 Medical treatment: surgery ablate ablation adenoidectomy adrenalectomy allograft amputation anaesthesia blood transfusion endarterectomy endonasal enterostomy enucleate enucleated general anaesthetic prostatectomy pump something out reduction mammaplasty regraft reimplant suture mastectomy | American Dictionarymastectomy noun[ C ] us/mæsˈtek·tə·mi/ the removal of a woman’s breast by a medical operation Examples of mastectomymastectomy Patient did not wish to undergo mastectomy and requested laser therapy. This is typically the case in the insetting of delayed reconstruction after mastectomy and postoperative radiation therapy. Large-scale clinical trials have shown that breast conservation therapy, involving lumpectomy and radiation therapy, results in survival rates equivalent to those seen with mastectomy. It is also debatable at what age to offer surgery, and whether total mastectomy is justified. Therefore, even if tamoxifen only has a modest benefit, it may be preferable over mastectomy to some women from a quality of life perspective. Of the 30% of women requiring mastectomy, the model assumes that none receive radiotherapy. The explanation is that a woman operated on with breast-conserving surgery can, if a relapse occurs, be forced to undergo a subsequent mastectomy. When asked about "decisions" made in the course of her care, she never mentions the mastectomy she had two years earlier. Tissue expansion is used when there is insufficient tissue after mastectomy to create the desired size and shape of each breast in a single stage. What might cause a shame-inducing event for the cancer patient could be obvious, such as examining a mastectomy scar during a postoperative follow-up visit. Survival rates did not differ between patients treated by radiation, lumpectomy or mastectomy. However, many women benefit from psychiatric consultation as they are in the process of deciding whether or when to have prophylactic mastectomy. Seventy-six of them were followed for 83 months following treatment by lumpectomy only (n 21) lumpectomy and radiotherapy (n 27), or mastectomy (n 28). Assessment of the time-tradeoff values for prophylactic mastectomy of women with a suspected genetic predisposition to breast cancer. The mastectomy wounds first healed normally, but after an interval a secondary infection developed. See all examples of mastectomy These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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