background: quality of life (qol) is becoming an important indicator of treatment efficacy in patients with breast cancer. most previous studies have compared patients' qol following breast conserving surgery (bcs) and mastectomy with or without reconstruction. our aim was to assess the impact of bcs versus oncoplastic breast surgery (obs). methods: selection of patients for bcs or obs was perf...

background: now the vast majority of breast tumors are treated using breast conservation therapy (bct) method, including lumpectomy and radiotherapy. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of intraoperative frozen section in patients undergoing breast conservation surgery. methods: totally 237 women who included in the category for breast conservative or oncoplastic surgery and post-operative...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the self-reported aesthetic outcome of breast conservation therapy in a generalized sample of patients, and to describe potential barriers to referral for partial breast reconstruction. METHODS Consecutive breast conservation therapy patients completing radiotherapy over a 1-year period at a regional cancer center were identified. Eligible ...

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...

Breast cancer management has drastically changed since the 1990s. Many patients with breast cancer now can opt to conserve their breast through a lumpectomy and radiation (breast conservation therapy), rather than a full mastectomy. Advances in the techniques of delivery and length of breast radiotherapy have been rapidly evolving. This article attempts to summarize some of those changes for nu...

HYPOTHESIS Resection of the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) for central breast cancers that involve the nipple or areola, with postoperative radiation therapy, adheres to the oncologic principles established for breast conservation surgery of other breast cancers. Good or excellent cosmetic results can be achieved. The rate of ipsilateral breast recurrence will be similar to that seen with periphe...