Quadrantectomy is a surgical removal of one quarter of the breast. This form of surgery is referred as a segmental or partial mastectomy. In this surgery quarter of a breast tissue is removed along with the muscles of the chest wall that lies within a 2-3 centimeter radius of a tumour This procedure is an alternate to a radical also called simple mastectomy, which includes the complete removal of the breast. Researches show that the patients who have been treated with this procedure, 9% of the people who had this surgery experienced a relapse in their cancer
