Breast Conservation Surgery

Due to tremendous advancements in breast cancer screening techniques, we now have the ability to detect breast cancer at earlier stages of disease. Often times, the cancer can be identified before the patient is able to palpate a mass. Localization of these non-palpable lesions can be performed in a number of ways, with many tools available to both the surgical oncologist as well as the general surgeon performing breast cancer operations. During breast conservation surgery (partial mastectomy/lumpectomy/quadrantectomy) the actual breast cancer is targeted for excision, with or without additional margins, leaving the remaining unaffected breast tissue behind for an aesthetically preserved breast.