GUIDELINE CONCEPTS OF THE MODERN BREA ST CANCER SURGERY

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N. PICARDI

Abstract

The more important trends of nowadays surgery for breast cancer are those of an advanced razionalization of combi ned strategies in a multidisciplinary view. Moreover it takes advantages from the availability of an extremely modern diagnostic instrumentation used in search of a truly early diagnosis, based on scheduled screening and surveillance cri teria both for general population and particularly for that at risk. In this way it is easier and possible to adopt less radical and more conservative surgical techniques, whose effectiveness is well demonstrated in association with adju vant treatment thanks to the convergence of multiple com petences. The better results of the last years are certainly related to the collaboration of surgeons with oncologists, thanks to the ever more effectiveness of adiuvant chemio and radiotherapy, that make more acceptable the attitude for the reconstructive and the conservative surgery whene ver possible. This interpretation of the actual positive results of breast cancer surgery point the way to follow, and are the basis for hoping further improvement in the treatment of this disease, ever more efficacious whilst that diagnosis precocions be more and more.

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PICARDI, N. “GUIDELINE CONCEPTS OF THE MODERN BREA ST CANCER SURGERY”. Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia, vol. 70, no. 3, May 1999, pp. 321-34, https://annaliitalianidichirurgia.it/index.php/aic/article/view/3219.
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