A systematic PubMed and Medline literature search was carried out. All abstracts were studied and papers that dealt primarily with breast conservation using plastic surgery techniques were reviewed.
Therapeutic mammoplasty is a useful procedure for breast conserving cancer surgery in women with large breasts, conferring a good cosmetic and functional outcome. This article proposes that breast surgeons experienced in oncological surgery can safely resect tumours from all aspects of the breast with a minimal number of variations in standard mammoplasty technique.