Resection and Reconstruction for Breast Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Research of Cancer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2026 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: breast cancer; surgery; breast reconstruction
Interests: breast cancer; sentinel lymph node biopsy; breast reconstruction; robotic surgery; surgical oncology
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Dear Colleagues,
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy found in women; according to GLOBOCAN, there were nearly 2.3 million of new cases diagnosed in 2022 and 670,000 deaths, respectively. Therefore, early diagnosis through proper screening, oncologic vigilance and education across the globe and proper combined modality treatment are vital.
This also means that breast cancer is a curable disease and there is a vast number of survivors, with many living with various consequences following therapy.
Surgery is a cornerstone of combined modality treatment and cannot be omitted in any case. Oncoplastic surgery (Audretsch), the integration of plastic surgery techniques for reshaping of the breast immediately after cancer eradication, allows us to decrease the positive margin rate and to obtain better aesthetics, and thus a higher quality of life. Oncoplastic techniques allow us to decrease the breast deformity rate following wide excisions. Breast reconstruction, either immediate or secondary to mastectomy and either implant-based and using autologous tissues, allows us to avoid mutilation. Being the oldest method of cancer therapy, surgery is very dynamic and there have been many changes in surgical strategies and techniques in this field in the last few decades.
There are two pillars of successful treatment in oncology: survival and the quality of life. Both have been successfully improved by modern surgery of the breast in frames of combined modality treatment.
For this special issue of Cancers, we welcome manuscripts covering surgical treatment of this very special and numerous group of patients: women touched by breast cancer.
Dr. Radoslaw Tarkowski
Dr. Gilles Houvenaeghel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oncoplastic breast surgery
- breast reconstruction
- breast cancer
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