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Review
. 2016:8:112-117.
doi: 10.1007/s12609-016-0212-9. Epub 2016 May 3.

Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: What, When and for Whom?

R Douglas Macmillan  1 , Stephen J McCulley  1
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Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: What, When and for Whom?

R Douglas Macmillan et al. Curr Breast Cancer Rep. 2016.

Abstract

Oncoplastic surgery is integral to all breast cancer surgeries. The use of an aesthetic approach to breast conservation or mastectomy greatly enhances the range of options that can be offered to women with breast cancer and facilitates better outomes from it. It should be the standard of care. However, a structured approach to selecting appropriate techniques is essential, and although many operative procedures are reported, this article sets out to describe a set of principles and an algorithm by which the what, when and for whom for oncoplastic surgery can be defined.

Keywords: Breast-conserving surgery; LICAP; Oncoplastic breast surgery; Therapeutic mammaplasty.

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The graph illustrates the role of the four main techniques in oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery according to breast size (volume and bra size), tumour size and estimated percentage of breast volume that would be removed as a wide local excision
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