Operative Approaches to Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Indications, Techn
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Operative Approaches to Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy
Jay K. Harness • Shawna C. Willey Editors
Operative Approaches to Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Indications, Techniques, & Outcomes
Editors Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA, USA Clinical Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery University of California Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA, USA
Shawna C. Willey, MD, FACS Professor of Clinical Surgery Director, MedStar Regional Breast Health Program Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-43257-1 ISBN 978-3-319-43259-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43259-5
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Foreword
It is a special privilege to write the foreword to this text on nipple-sparing mastectomy edited by Shawna Willey and Jay Harness. It would be hard to overestimate how powerful and revolutionary the adoption of this technique has been to the management of breast cancer. In the first edition published in 1998 of my seminal multidisciplinary textbook, Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art, there were no chapters on Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy, and the chapter on Prophylactic Mastectomy specifically recommended against retaining the nipple. Although Breast Conservation, where the remaining breast skin and nipple are retained and radiated, had been widely adopted earlier, there was a peculiar resistance regarding preserving the nipple and the breast skin envelope when the entire breast gland had been removed but not radiated. To the best of my knowledge, the first big chink in the anti-nipple preservation armor came wi
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