Advances in Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729). This special issue belongs to the section "Surgical Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2023) | Viewed by 28175
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hereditary breast cancer; breast cancer surgery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women; in 2020 alone, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer globally. Whereas multimodality therapy including combinations of chemotherapy, hormonal blockade, immunotherapy, and surgery is used for the management of breast cancer, surgery remains the mainstay of treatment and is a component of care of almost all patients diagnosed with nonmetastatic disease.
Yet, it has been more than three decades since Fisher published a paper validating lumpectomy for the management of breast cancer, and more than two decades since Giuliano published a paper on sentinel lymph node biopsy for axillary staging. Surgical innovation tends to be a slower process than what is observed in other areas of cancer care. Nonetheless, innovation does occur, and the dissemination and adoption of new surgical approaches to the management of breast cancer are essential for optimizing patient outcomes.
This Special Issue will focus on the advances in the surgical management of breast cancer. Suggested manuscript topics include, but are not limited to:
- Oncoplastics;
- Breast conserving surgery vs. mastectomy;
- Sensation preserving mastectomy;
- Sequelae of breast cancer surgery;
- Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (roles, trends, and controversies);
- Breast reconstruction and oncoplastic reductions;
- Nonoperative management of advanced breast cancer (post-NAT);
- Nonoperative management of early breast cancer (ablation techniques);
- Surgical management of lymphedema;
- Genetic testing by surgeons;
- Patient-reported outcomes of breast cancer surgery;
- Operative and nonoperative management of the axilla.
Dr. Rona Cheifetz
Dr. Elaine McKevitt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- breast cancer
- breast surgery
- breast reconstruction
- breast ablation
- oncoplastics
- genetic screening
- mastectomy
- prophylactic mastectomy
- lymphedema
- genetic testing
- patient-reported outcomes
- axillary surgery
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
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