the number-one cause of death which means these early screenings are doing their job. absolutely. the art is what treatment you want to do. carcinoma institute is controversial. fact or myth? that is a fact. it is controversial but i ll tell you why because elisabeth: what is it? it s controversial. the reason it is controversial is because we don t know what to do when we find abnormal cells. elisabeth: are the cells in the milk duct? absolutely. we can find cells in that duct that are cancerous. more studies have shown limited conservative treatment is best. you can do a hrefrpl lump ectomy. most experts will still go for treatment, not to watch it because we don t know how much of these will go to more aggressive breast cancer.
left to indian wells to do the for haiti and we played together and i said to her, martina, are you sure you want to do this? maybe you should go home and take care of yourself? don t do anything? but knowing martina, you have to understand that she feels the best when she s busy. she feels the best when she s on the tennis court. reporter: on march 15th, martina navratilova surrounded by her support team traveled to the u.s. state of colorado for the first stage of her treatment. a lump ectomy. this removes the lump along with the tissue around the area. it s a breast-preserving surgery, far less radical than a mastectomy. is surgery usually takes 15 to 30 minutes. but this is only one step on the journey to become cancer free. i didn t have to have chemo. the surgery was minor compared to other surgeries.
pretty well. again, with time, hopefully, these cures will be even less invasive than they are now. again, for me the lump.ectomy was pretty easy, but i guess now, my unknown is the radiation. i m having a six week course of radiation. what do i expect in that? that s low impact. they re going to aim it at the tissue around the tumor that was taken out. the reason we do the radiation is because we recognize that in order to get all the tissue with a good margin around this very early tumor, you would disfigure the breast. in order to preserve the contour of the breast and maintain a cosmetically acceptable appearance, we make a smaller excision of tissue and raid yat around it to make sure we have no cells that escaped into the tissue around the area we attacked. actually i m told i ll be having the whole breast irradiated. in the old days, the