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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...
In the current pandemic times for SARS-CoV-2, several challenges are posed to the scientific community. With regard to the implementation of treatments for the elderly with cancer, despite the high complexity in its approach, a variable (SARS-CoV-2) now appears that represents a high impact on multidisciplinary decision-making processes when deciding which therapeutic strategies to use. In accordance with vario...
The need to perform an Axillary Dissection when the Sentinel Node is metastasized, in Breast Cancer patients, is being questioned. Most part of the patients do not have any additional metastasis in the Non Sentinel Nodes and, in many cases, the decision to perform adjuvant treatments is not dependent on the axillary nodes analysis. The recent publication of the randomized trial ACOSOG Z0011 launched the discuss...