Introducion: The Chapter of Breast Surgery of the Portuguese Society of Surgery aimed to find out how hospitals treating breast cancer (BC) in Portugal are organized into breast units and how nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) is performed in clinical practice. Methods: Forty-five hospitals were invited to participate in an anonymous online survey in March 2023, just befo...
Purpose: The Chapter on Breast Surgery of the Portuguese Society of Surgery aimed to find out from hospitals that treat breast cancer (BC) their contemporary surgical management of the axilla. Methods: Forty-five hospitals were invited to participate in a nationwide survey in March 2023. A qualitative and quantitative description was made. A complementary comparison with national and international BC clinical g...