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Mammography and methods of preoperative diagnosis in breast cancer (P2)

Mammography and methods of preoperative diagnosis in breast cancer (P2)

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/10/2023

There are a number of advantages in the preoperative diagnosis of breast cancer, since they allow planning before surgery and have a lower cost than a biopsy.

Dr. Mauricio Canavati Marcos

Advantages of preoperative diagnosis

breast examination It allows planning a definitive cancer surgery (better oncological and cosmetic result).

• Preoperative information on the disease and discussion of treatment options.

• It reduces the distress of patients when entering the operating room, since there is no uncertainty at the time of surgery.

• There is more possibility of having free margins when performing conservative breast surgery.

• Allows you to plan a breast reconstruction.

• It allows to plan the treatment in case of requiring neoadjuvant chemotherapy (before surgery).

• Fewer surgical procedures to treat the disease against those who undergo the surgical biopsy.

• This type of biopsy "does not sow the tumor".

• It is possible to avoid surgeries in case of benign lesions.

• It has less cost than the surgical biopsy.

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