Optimal surgical treatment of breast cancer: implications for local control and survival.
Improvements in the local control of primary breast cancer have been shown to improve long-term survival. The role of surgical therapy in maximizing local control includes: appropriate patient selection for breast conservation; tumor resection with pathologically free margins; careful staging with sentinel node biopsy; appropriate use of axillary dissection; and meticulous surgical technique to achieve these goals. Each component of surgical therapy has the potential for maximizing local control, and therefore for extending survival.
Khan
Seema A
SA
Department of Surgery and the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. skhan@nmh.org
Eladoumikdachi
Firas
F
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental; D009367:Neoplasm Staging