• Surgery is used to diagnose cancer, determine its stage, and to treat cancer.
• Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is an operation that removes the tumour and allowing a woman to keep or conserve as much of her breast as possible.
• Lumpectomy is a surgical treatment for patient at the earliest stage to diagnosed breast cancer.
• A mastectomy is surgery to remove a breast. It is performed either to treat or to prevent breast cancer. Only high-risk patients need this surgery.

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