Original scientific paper
Conservative surgery for breast cancer in The University Hospital for Tumors
Miroslav Lesar
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Stjepan Juzbašić
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Stanec
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Danko Velimir Vrdoljak
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Milas
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Nenad Nola
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Andrej Roth
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravka Mužina
; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Surgical treatment for breast cancer remains the dominant method despite a number of minor changes in the approach. While some twenty-odd years ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer meant removal of the entire breast and beyond, today the same result (both success or fail results) can be achieved with conservative care.
Participants of the Consensus Conference in Paris in 1990 reached the conclusion that breast- conserving surgery followed by irradiation is an appropriate method of primary therapy for the majority of women with stage I and II breast cancer, and is preferable because it provides survival equivalent to mastectomy while preserving the breast.
Keywords
conservative surgery; breast cancer
Hrčak ID:
281783
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2003.
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