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2%) underwent lumpectomy for palpable masses, and in eight women (25.
This situation would have occurred when the BCS code was actually used for a diagnostic biopsy and the subsequent surgical treatment was a mastectomy or in situations where a lumpectomy was first selected, but a mastectomy became necessary because pathological examination revealed cancerous cells in the margins of the excised tissue.
We also included codes for excision of breast cysts or lesions (19120 and 19125) as these codes meet the definition of a lumpectomy, although we recognize that some surgeons may have billed these codes for excisional biopsies as a diagnostic procedure.
This week's study in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirming that mastectomies increased after Nancy Reagan chose to undergo that radical procedure rather than have a less drastic "lumpectomy."
1%), the lumpectomy was followed by radiation therapy.