title: The role of surgery in advanced carcinoma of the breast.
abstract: The role of surgery in the management of advanced carcinoma of the breast is controversial. Locally advanced carcinoma may present as a primary tumour or as recurrent disease. Treatment should be the result of a multi-disciplinary approach and may involve one or more different modalities. Minor surgery is usually meddlesome and often followed by local recurrence which is hard to control. Major resection does have a place, often in association with other modalities of treatment, and its use in carefully selected patients is described in this paper.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Newing
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015409:Mastectomy, Radical; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery*; D009852:Omentum / Q000601:surgery*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*