A surgical procedure to remove all of the breast along with chest muscles and all of the lymph nodes under the arm. The surgeon may also remove a section of rib.
Radical mastectomy used to be the most common treatment for breast cancer. Now it is only used if the cancer has spread to the chest muscles.
Also called Halsted mastectomy.
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