S24 Oncoplastic surgery: Overview and recommendations for training

Oncoplastic Surgery

Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Centrally located tumours have long been considered to be more serious, multifocal and more likely to recur. In fact, this is not the case; the only real problem is ensuring that the breast is preserved with a “normal” form following breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. As with more peripheral tumours, central tumours may also benefi t from breast-conserving surgery. Several tec...

Reconstructive and Oncoplastic Surgery for Giant Phyllodes Tumors: A Single Centre\'s Experience

Phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. While the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the surgical approach to tumors greater than ten centimetres in diameter – the giant phyllodes tumor. We report a case of giant breast tumors and discuss the techniques utilized for pre-...

Oncoplastic surgery – Standard of care

Oncoplastic breast surgery: comprehensive review.

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Western populations, affecting 12.5% of women, with 1.38 million patients per year. Breast-conserving surgery followed by postoperative radiotherapy replaced the radical and modified-radical procedures of Halsted and Patey as the standard of care for early-stage breast cancer once the overall and disease-free survival rates of breast-conserving ...