Introduction Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malig-nancy in women worldwide[1,2]and in the twentieth century,mastectomy was the primary surgical treatment for breast cancer patients.Advances in breast-con...Introduction Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malig-nancy in women worldwide[1,2]and in the twentieth century,mastectomy was the primary surgical treatment for breast cancer patients.Advances in breast-conserving surgery(BCS)propelled a change in treatment rational from“maximum tolerable”to“minimum effective”ther-apy.Oncoplastic breast surgery aims to restore the shape of the breast and has been widely adopted since the past decade.Although the cosmetic outcome has been sig-nificantly improved,the scar remaining on the surgeried breast skin is still a major pitfall that urges urgent consid-eration.In this editorial,we review a series of techniques that can be incorporated in oncoplastic breast surgery to minimize scarring,signifying the beginning of an era for scarless oncoplastic surgery.展开更多
基金This project was partially supported by the Yat-sen Scholarship of Young Scientist program of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital,Sun Yat-sen University(Recipient:Kai Chen)the Grant from Guangdong Science and Technology Department(2017B030314026)
文摘Introduction Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malig-nancy in women worldwide[1,2]and in the twentieth century,mastectomy was the primary surgical treatment for breast cancer patients.Advances in breast-conserving surgery(BCS)propelled a change in treatment rational from“maximum tolerable”to“minimum effective”ther-apy.Oncoplastic breast surgery aims to restore the shape of the breast and has been widely adopted since the past decade.Although the cosmetic outcome has been sig-nificantly improved,the scar remaining on the surgeried breast skin is still a major pitfall that urges urgent consid-eration.In this editorial,we review a series of techniques that can be incorporated in oncoplastic breast surgery to minimize scarring,signifying the beginning of an era for scarless oncoplastic surgery.
