Therapeutic Mammoplasty Doesn't Delay Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer Patients | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Surgery | ||
| Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2025, Pages 1156-1160 PDF (238.77 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejsur.2025.358304.1380 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nagm Eldin Abu Elnga; Mariam Nabil Anwer* ; Abdelradi Abdelsalam Farghaly; Mahmoud Thabet Ayoub | ||
| Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: There is little information on the oncological safety of therapeutic mammoplasty (TM) or its influence on the timing of adjuvant drug administration, despite growing interest in TM. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy is not significantly delayed by TM. Methods: Ninety female patients who underwent TM at Assiut University Hospital between May 2021 and May 2024 and who got adjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy following surgery were included in this retrospective analysis. Information on surgery and adjuvant therapy was also gathered, including the date of the procedure and the first adjuvant therapy session, the kind of TM method used, the adjuvant therapy type chosen for the patient, and any documented postoperative problems. Results: Patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy presented a time lapse ranging between 21 to 50 days with a mean value of 39.79 ± 7.16, while patients who underwent upfront surgery presented time lapse ranging between 30 to 55 days with a mean value of 40.58 ± 6.17, P- value 0.57 which is not significant. Patients underwent Benelli mammoplasty represented the longest time lapse with an overall mean value of 39.55±9.0, The shortest overall mean value of time lapse found to be among patients underwent superior pedicle mammoplasty 37±6.19. Conclusions: For patients with breast cancer who have had upfront surgery or have undergone neo adjuvant chemotherapy first, therapeutic mammoplasty is a safe conservative oncoplastic breast procedure since it doesn't cause a major delay in the delivery of adjuvant medication. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Adjuvant therapy; breast cancer; therapeutic mammoplasty | ||
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