Breast Surgery Flashcards
What are the 2 main groups of breast surgery?
Breast-conserving surgery
Mastectomy
What procedure(s) come under breast-conserving therapy?
Wide local excision (lumpectomy)
Therapeutic mammoplasty
What procedure(s) come under mastectomy?
Transverse mastectomy
Skin-sparing mastectomy with reconstruction
Under what conditions does breast-conserving surgery have the same survival as mastectomy?
Clear 1mm (or higher) margins Neoadjuvant radiotherapy given
What is oncoplastic surgery?
Surgery avoiding tissue deformity by reshaping contours at time of resection
List all the reconstruction options following a mastectomy
External prosthesis
Implant
Flap
What are the treatment options for the axilla?
Sentinel node biopsy
Axillary clearance
Axillary radiotherapy