Breast-saving operations in breast cancer

Beller, F.K.; Wilken, H.

Zentralblatt für Gynakologie 109(1): 22-31

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4197
PMID: 3577460
Document Number: 286682
Breast preserving surgery or conservative surgery consists at present of a combination of a reduced operation--tumorectomy or wedge resection or subcutaneous mastectomy--with adequate radiotherapy whereby a doses of 40-50 Gy is used with or without an additional booster dose of 10 Gy. Recent studies of 5-year- and 10-year-survival rates after conservative management have been shown to be identical with radical operations (Rotter-Halsted, Patey-Auchincloss). In the Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Universities of Münster and Rostock the partial bilateral subcutaneous mastectomy with lymphadenectomy and irradiation is the preferred method of conservative management for breast cancer. Indications and technique are discussed.

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