Role of conservative breast surgery in locally advanced breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Alaa A. El Sisi; Mahmoud G. Hagag; Mohammed G. Hegazi

doi:10.18203/2349-2902.isj20190092

Authors

Alaa A. El Sisi Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1154-5677
Mahmoud G. Hagag Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
Mohammed G. Hegazi Department of Surgical Oncology, Tanta Cancer Center, El Gharbia, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20190092

Keywords:

Conservative breast surgery, Locally advanced breast cancer, Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Abstract

Background: Locally advanced breast cancer represents 20%-25% of breast cancer patients at diagnosis. The aim of this prospective study was to assess the feasibility and the oncologic outcome in the treatment of patients of locally advanced breast cancer that had been downstaged by neoadjuvant chemotherapy to the extent that makes them eligible for conservative breast surgery.

Methods: This prospective study was done on 50 female patients who were diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer and received neoadjuvant chemotherapy to downstage cancer making it eligible for conservation, managed and treated at El Menoufia University Hospital and Tanta Cancer Center from March 2017 to March 2018 after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. The collected data were organized, tabulated and statistically analyzed using SPSS software.

Results: Significant difference between pre and post-chemotherapy tumor size in patients with locally advanced breast cancer. Conservative breast surgery with intraoperative frozen section assured free margins in all of them with acceptable cosmetic outcome. No local recurrence recorded after one year of follow up.

Conclusions: In the present study, it was observed that conventional neoadjuvant chemotherapy is effective in downgrading the tumor size and axillary lymph nodes in patients with locally advanced breast cancer. Breast conservation after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is safe in terms of local recurrence.

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