Oncoplastic Surgery

Oncoplastic surgery is tumor specific immediate breast reconstruction. It represents the integration of plastic surgery techniques into breast cancer surgery in order to preserve aesthetical outcomes and quality of life of the patients, without compromising local control of disease. It is based on three surgical principles: ideal breast cancer surgery with free tumor margins, immediate breast reconstruction, and immediate symmetry with the other breast. Although the word was originally coined by Werner Audrescht in Germany in the 1990s, plastic surgery techniques were transposed into breast-conserving therapy to avoid late unsatisfactory aesthetic results in 1980s in France by Jean-Yves Petit (Institut Goustave-Roussy), Jean-Yves Bobin (Centre Léon-Bérard) and Michel Abbes (Centre Lacassagne).