Conservative treatment of the central breast cancer with nipple-areolar resection: an alternative oncoplastic technique

G Chir. 2008 Jan-Feb;29(1-2):23-7.

Abstract

Conservative surgery with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer. Nevertheless, the patients with subareolar breast cancer have been often excluded from breast-conserving surgery and treated with mastectomy because of the unacceptable cosmetic effect associated with the resection of the nipple-areola complex (NAC), as well as oncologic concerns about multicentricity or multifocality associated with these tumours. We show a conservative "oncoplastic technique" in which the resection of the central portion of the breast, including the NAC, can allow a wide excision of the tumour with uninvolved margins of resection and good cosmetic results.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Breast Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Carcinoma / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mastectomy, Segmental / methods*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Nipples / surgery*
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Treatment Outcome