Conservative mastectomy

a promising technique

Abstract

The presence of the nipple is known to improve the body image and patient satisfaction. Conservative mastectomy is an emerging technique that couples oncological safety and cosmesis by entirely removing the breast parenchyma sparing the breast skin and nipple-areola complex (NAC). At European Institute of Oncology (IEO) we starting performing this technique in 2002 and so far we have treated 2,487 patients. We present our experience with the technique.