Oncoplastic breast surgery has become a popular choice of treatment for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. There are two different techniques in oncoplastic surgery depending on the volume of the excised breast tissue. One is the volume displacement procedure, which combines resection with a variety of different breast-reshaping and breast-reduction techniques; the other is the volume repl...

Background: Oncoplastic surgery is becoming more common, however, only several reports have been published in Japan. We report the results of simple oncoplastic surgery for Japanese patients with early breast cancer in the upper quadrant area. Methods: In seven patients with a past history of breast-feeding and ptotic breasts, we performed oncoplastic surgery involving partial mastectomy and th...

BACKGROUND Oncoplastic surgery is being increasingly performed in Korean women; however, unlike Westerners, Korean women usually have small to moderate-sized breasts. To achieve better outcomes in reconstructed breasts, several factors should be considered to determine the optimal surgical method. METHODS A total of 108 patients who underwent oncoplastic surgery from January 2013 to December ...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, conservative breast surgery was contraindicated in centrally located breast tumors, with total mastectomy as the treatment of choice. However, restorations of the central defects by the oncoplastic volume displacement or replacement techniques have been shown to be effective. The aim of the current study was to assess the surgical outcome of oncoplastic techniques afte...

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...

BACKGROUND Patients suffering from symptomatic macromastia are usually underserved, as they have to put up with very long waiting lists and are usually selected under restrictive criteria. The Oncoplastic Breast Surgery subspeciality requires a cross-specialty training, which is difficult, in particular, for trainees who have a background in general surgery, and not easily available. The introd...

oncoplastic breast surgery (obs) has gained widespread acceptance during the last two decades as an integral component of breast cancer surgery. obs combines oncological principles of breast cancer surgery with plastic surgery techniques to provide the best cosmetic results without compromising oncological outcome of breast cancer treatment and it has opened up the possibility to perform breast...