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/ˌmæsˈtɛktəmi/ · noun
The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues..
Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.
An estimate of U.S. “gender-affirming” double mastectomies published in 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 3,125 cases of “breast or chest procedures” in patients ages 12 to 18 between 2016 to 2020.
Use mastectomy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mastectomy means The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues..
Common synonyms include mammectomy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.
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