The treatment of breast cancer has evolved over the past 40 years. Followed by radiotherapy, conservative surgical procedures are options increasingly more preferred by surgeons and patients. This paper aims to highlight comparative aspects of local and distant recurrence in patients who had radical or conservative surgery for breast cancer. We performed a retrospective study between January, 2...

Several large prospective and retrospective studies have demonstrated excellent long-term outcomes after breast conservative treatment with radiation in invasive breast cancer. Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy (RT) is an accepted management strategy for patients with DCIS. Adding radiation treatment after conservative surgery enables to reduce, without any significant ri...

Advances in reconstructive breast surgery with new materials and techniques now allow us to offer our patients the best possible cosmetic results without the risks associated with oncological control of the disease. These advances, in both oncological and plastic surgery, have led to a new specialisation, namely oncoplastic breast surgery, which enables us to undertake large resections and, wit...

BACKGROUND Conservative surgical treatment has been the treatment of choice for early breast cancer. It allows feasible oncological treatment with a satisfactory cosmetic approach and fast recovery. However, in some cases mastectomy is necessary. This study proposes a surgical approach with only one surgical access through the same incision, which is in line with precepts mentioned abov...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women of developed countries. Early stage diagnosis is followed, in many cases, of conservative surgery and local radiotherapy. This treatment reduces loco-regional recurrences but may be accompanied by local complications. Morphea of the breast is an uncommon skin condition and has been described after radiotherapy. The inflammatory stage of morphea c...

PURPOSE We aimed to prospectively assess the role of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) in the evaluation of predictive factors for breast conservative surgery during neoadjuvant chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-six patients were evaluated before the first treatment cycle, after the second cycle, and upon the completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy accordin...

Introduction: COVID-19 implied that a great number of infected individuals were hospitalized and possibly admitted to intensive care units. Cancer centers have rapidly changed models by delaying non-urgent surgeries. Breast surgeries delayed for early breast cancer patients forcing clinicians potentially alter treatment recommendations neo-adjuvant chemotherapy until appropriate conditions esta...

BACKGROUND An association between the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and better outcome after mastectomy and lung surgery for cancer has been recently suggested. In a retrospective analysis, we investigated the association between intraoperative NSAIDs use in conservative breast cancer surgery and breast cancer disease-free survival (DFS). Similarly, we also evaluated the...

Conservative breast cancer surgery is facing a new problem: the potential tumour involvement of resection margins. This eventuality has been closely and negatively associated with disease-free survival. Various factors may influence the likelihood of margins being affected, mostly related to the characteristics of the tumour, patient or surgical technique. In the last decade, many studies have ...