Thursday, 3 September 2015

Conservative surgery for multifocal/multicentric breast cancer

Conservative surgery for multifocal/multicentric breast cancer
The Breast Published Online: August 23, 2015


Matthijs V, et al


Multifocal (MF) and multicentric (MC) breast cancer is regularly considered a relative contraindication for breast-conserving therapy (BCT). There are two reasons for this wide spread notion:However, we concur that if optimal ‘cytoreductive surgery’ is achieved this will result in good local control....................