This flap of muscle, skin, and fatty tissue is moved, still connected to its blood supply. May be cancerous or premalignant. A malignant tumor arising from glandular structures in an organ.
Breast cancer is a type of adenocarcinoma.
A secondary treatment in addition to the primary therapy. Chemotherapy is often an adjuvant therapy to mastectomy. The use of anticancer drugs after surgery to prevent a recurrence of cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy is commonly given to breast cancer patients who have positive lymph nodes. A stage of cancer in which the disease has spread from the breast to other body systems by traveling through the lymphatic system or through the bloodstream.