Breast-conservation therapy with lumpectomy is a valuable component of breast cancer treatment, with an equivalent survival outcome to that of mastectomy. In addition to physical preservation, women who undergo breast conservation have a better view of their body image, are more comfortable with nudity and breast caressing, and might have less adverse physical sequelae from asymmetry, chest wall adhesions and numbness associated with mastectomy.
This prospective study was conducted at General Surgery Department, Benha University Hospitals over a period of 12 months, started November 2015. The study comprised 30 females patients aged 31 to 52 years (43 ± 7.38 years). All patients were assigned to undergo one of the volume displacement techniques according to the site of the tumour and the excision volume in relation to the breast size.
Actually the wound complications in breast cancer patients who underwent therapeutic mammoplasty were not higher than reduction mammoplasty in macromastia alone. These complications were usually minor ones, and, therefore, did not give rise to a delay of adjuvant therapies.
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