Results of surgical treatment of the "minimal" forms of breast cancer
Semiglazov, V.F.; Orlov, A.A.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 130(3): 47-51
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 6857957 Document Number: 215092
Results of the surgical treatment of 262 patients with "minimum" (less than 1 cm) forms of breast cancer are analyzed. The incidence of local relapses and late metatases of the tumor following mastectomy after Patey did not exceed their incidence after the Halsted mastectomy (8.1% and 10,4% correspondingly). After an "extended" sectoral resection (a lateral excision) along with the axillary-subclavian fat local relapses were found to appear in 12,5% of patients, late metastases being noted in 25,0% of cases. When sectoral resections were fulfilled without an ablation of the axillary fat "regional relapses of carcinoma made their appearance in 21,0% of patients, late metastases---in 15,7% of patients. A conclusion is made that indications to organ-preserving operations must be restricted even in the "minimum" forms of carcinoma.