Definition of "lumpectomies" [lumpectomies]

• Plural form of lumpectomy. (noun)

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• "One of the biggest dilemmas in breast-conserving "lumpectomies" is whether or not all of the cancer has been removed."
• "In 1928, four years after Keynes had begun his lumpectomies in London, two statisticians, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson, provided a systematic method to evaluate a negative statistical claim."
• "FLATOW: You know, in reading this, in reading your book - excellent book, Dr. Scholz - I thought, you know, we're with prostate cancer where we were with breast cancer 30 years ago, you know: Cut out the whole thing, and, you know, now we have lumpectomies and other kinds of treatments that's there."