Wide local excision
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| Wide local excision | |
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| Term | Wide local excision |
| Short definition | wide local excision - surgical procedure in which a scalpel (a sharp knife) is used to excise a tumor or other abnormal lesion and some surrounding normal tissue. The amount of normal tissue removed depends on how deep or how large the tumor to be removed is. |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
| Comments | |
wide local excision - surgical procedure in which a scalpel (a sharp knife) is used to excise a tumor or other abnormal lesion and some surrounding normal tissue. The amount of normal tissue removed depends on how deep or how large the tumor to be removed is. Wide local excision is often performed to remove some types of skin cancer or breast cancer
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