In most instances, modified radical mastectomy has proven to be just as effective and less disfiguring.

The modified radical mastectomy is as effective in most cases, and it's less disfiguring.

Modified radical mastectomy is done to remove the tumour and a margin of healthy tissue around it.

This procedure is rarely performed today because modified radical mastectomy has proved to be as effective, and is less disfiguring.

This operation is rarely done today, because a modified radical mastectomy is as effective and is less disfiguring.

This type of surgery appears to be similar to modified radical mastectomy in effectiveness for many women.

This is a less common procedure because in most cases, modified radical mastectomy has been proven to be as effective and less disfiguring.

In a modified radical mastectomy, surgeons remove the entire breast and some axillary (underarm) lymph nodes.

This surgery is rarely done now because modified radical mastectomy has proven to work just as well.

This surgery is rarely done now since studies have shown that the modified radical mastectomy is just as effective, has fewer side effects and has less disfigurement.

This surgery is now rarely used because the modified radical mastectomy has proven to be just as effective with less disfigurement and fewer side effects.

Although common in the past, radical mastectomy is now rarely performed because in most cases, modified radical mastectomy has proven to be just as effective and less disfiguring.

In the absence of clinically positive axillary metastases, medially located cancers may be adequately treated with segmental (partial) mastectomy or with modified radical mastectomy and peripheral lymphatic irradiation.

If lymph nodes are removed entirely during the surgery – known as axillary node dissection – the mastectomy procedure is referred to as a modified radical mastectomy.

Wound Infection: After modified radical mastectomy the rates of wound infections range from 2.8% to 15% (5).