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TeachMeFinance.com - explain modified radical mastectomy modified radical mastectomy --
(mas-TEK-toe-mee) Surgery for breast cancer in which the breast, most or all of the lymph nodes under the arm, and the lining over the chest muscles are removed. Sometimes the surgeon also removes part of the chest wall muscles.
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