About the Treatment Method
Organ Preservation in Breast Cancer
This is a very old and false belief. Large-scale medical studies conducted for decades have proven that; in appropriate early-stage tumors, the survival time and disease-free survival rates of patients who undergo "Breast-Conserving Surgery + Radiotherapy" are 100% the same as patients who have their entire breasts removed.
No. In cases where the tumor is very large compared to the breast size, if there are multiple tumors in different quadrants of the breast (multicentric), or if the patient has a genetic mutation (BRCA), the doctor may recommend the removal of the entire breast instead of BCS for safety purposes.
Yes, this is an international standard. Since the breast's own tissue is left behind, radiotherapy must absolutely be applied to that breast after the surgery in order to completely burn possible invisible microscopic cancer cells in that area and reduce the probability of cancer recurrence (relapse) to zero.
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