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Single-Port Robotic-assisted Transaxillary Breast-conserving Surgery: A Prospective, Single-arm, Non-randomized Phase IIa Clinical Trial
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Oncoplastic principles in breast conserving surgery
Cicero Urban1, Rubens Lima, Eduardo Schunemann
1Breast Unit, Hospital Nossa Senhora das Gragas, Curitiba, Brazil. cicerourban@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Oncoplastic surgery (OP) represents a major advance in breast cancer surgery. It is based on three principles: ideal oncology surgery with free margins and adequate local control of disease, immediate breast reconstruction and symmetry, with the transposition of plastic surgery techniques into breast cancer surgery. Its original focus was to improve the quality of life of patients undergoing oncological treatments that can be more effective from the aesthetic-functional point of view than the traditional breast conserving techniques. As it happens with all changes of paradigms, it brings new challenges for the traversal formation of all involved in the treatment of breast cancer. Besides that, it opens to new perspectives of surgical research related to the aesthetic results, quality of life and local control, as well as optimization of operative timing and reduction of both adverse effects and costs. The aim of this review was to present the principles of this approach and the main techniques applied, evaluating its indications and limits in conservative breast cancer surgery.
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