Oncoplastic Treatment

While performing the surgical treatment of breast cancer, oncoplastic surgery aims to achieve more cosmetic results by using plastic surgery principles without compromising oncological principles. Sometimes it offers advantages such as providing breast protection with oncoplastic techniques in patients for whom breast-conserving surgery is not possible.

While the necessary surgery is performed on the breast with breast cancer, the necessary intervention can be performed on the other breast, and symmetry can be achieved (For example, the tumor in the cancerous breast of a patient with very large breasts is removed by reducing the breast. The healthy breast is also reduced in the same session, resulting in an ideal bilateral cosmetic result.)

Oncoplastic techniques are surgical methods that are quite diverse and have varying degrees of difficulty.

One of the simplest and most frequently applied techniques is the technique of filling the site where the tumor was removed in a patient undergoing breast-conserving surgery by preparing intraglandular flaps from the surrounding breast tissue. Thus, collapse in the tumor site can be prevented and better aesthetic results can be obtained.

One of the most frequently used methods around the world is to perform mastectomy by protecting the breast skin and, if appropriate, its tip and filling it with silicone implants instead of breast tissue (Skin-sparing mastectomy + silicone reconstruction). It is a method that is most frequently applied especially in genetically risky patients and has been shown to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer with a probability of over 90%.