Thursday 1 October 2015

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is not a contraindication for nipple sparing mastectomy

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is not a contraindication for nipple sparing mastectomy

The Breast, October 2015 Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 661–666

Stefano Santoro, Andrea Loreti, Francesco Cavaliere, Leopoldo Costarelli, Massimo La Pinta, Elena Manna, Maria Mauri, Paola Scavina, Elena Santini, Ugo De Paula, Vito Toto, Lucio Fortunato


Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) has been recently implemented to improve cosmetic outcome after mastectomy, but it is rarely considered today after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCH).