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Breast cancer operations

Oncoplastic surgery is the integration of plastic surgery techniques into breast cancer surgery to achieve aesthetic and cosmetic results, improving patients’ quality of life without reducing control over the disease. Oncoplastic surgery began in the 1990s, when plastic surgeons introduced techniques to treat breast cancer with aesthetic results. Its a relatively new surgical method to […]

Breast cancer operations II

Oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery is a third and more aesthetic option alongside conventional/standard breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy. Oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery covers two fundamentally different approaches: 1) volume displacement and 2) volume replacement. Conventional/standard breast-conserving surgery To understand the cosmetic principles behind the two different approaches, it is useful to know how conventional/standard breast-conserving treatment is described. […]