Increasing the radicalism of organ-saving surgery for breast cancer by an intraoperative histological study

Abstract

The paper gives the long-term results of organ-saving surgery in 141 patients with stage Ia–IIIc breast cancer. Emergent histological examina- tion of a breast tissue sector was made during the surgery. Due to intraoperative morphological findings, the surgical volume was extended to gland reresection or mastectomy in 34 % of cases. There were low rates of local recurrences (0.6 % per year) and delayed operations.

Keywords

• histological study
• radical mastectomy
• lumpectomy
• organ-saving surgery
• intraoperative histological study