Background: Oncoplastic surgery (OPS) has improved outcomes for partial mastectomy. However, tissue rearrangement poses challenges in the post-operative management of these patients. In most cases, these patients will require post-operative radiotherapy. Accurately visualizing the surgical cavity can be particularly troublesome in patients who have oncoplastic closure of the resection cavity. R...

Conservative surgery has become a well-established alternative to mastectomy in the treatment of breast cancer. However, in case of larger lesions or small-size breasts, the removal of adequate volumes of breast tissue to achieve tumor-free margins and reduce the risk of local relapse may compromise the cosmetic outcome, causing unpleasant results. In order to address this issue, new surgical t...

In our current practice therapeutic reduction mammaplasty is our preferred oncoplastic breast conserving approach, which we utilize in almost half of our patients. This technique is very versatile and allows us the resection of tumors located in all breast quadrants of patients with moderate-to large-sized breasts. We describe a series of 57 patients who were treated using a therapeutic reducti...

The breast-conserving treatment, in essence, implies not only providing breast-conserving surgery (BCS), but also adjuvant radiation therapy, that significantly reduces the risk of disease loco-regional and distant recurrence and is considered as an integral part of breast cancer conservative treatment [1,2]. Traditionally, appearance of more than one malignant tumor, in one or several breast q...