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