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The journal «ONCOSURGERY» 2014, Vol.6, No 1

The control of surgical margins for organ-preserving treatment of breast cancer

Semiglazov VF1, Semiglazov VV2, Nikolaev KS1, Komyakhov AV2, Bryantseva GV3

1) NN Petrov Research Institute of Oncology,
2) IP Pavlov Saint-Petersburg State Medical University,
3) II Mechnikov Northwest State Medical University,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Contact: Nikolaev Kirill Stanislavovich, e-mail:

The definition of optimal surgical margin for organ-preserving treatment (OPT) of breast cancer remains controversial. Historically, this controversy is based on original studies, proved the safety of OPT and numerous conflicting retrospective studies tried to determine the correlation between margin width and long-term outcomes over the last 20 years. It is important to realize that assessment of surgical margin is inaccurate and currant laboratory methods for surgical margin assessment represent only selected evaluation. Current data show that assessment of surgical margin for OPT should be done according to biological specifics of breast cancer and also correlation between tumor biology, adjuvant treatment and long-term outcomes. The consensus on definition of surgical margin for OPT should have clinical priority because it allows to decrease the extent of surgery on breast cancer with no compromising long-term treatment outcomes.

KEY WORDS: breast cancer, organ-preserving treatment, surgical margin.

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