Surgical Applications to Patients Diagnosed with Early Stage Invasive Ductal Carcinoma

Aim: Early stage breast cancer is being determined at increasing rates associated with an increase in the application of breast cancer screening programs. There is no consensus as to the surgical technique to be applied to these patients. In this study, the surgical techniques applied in our practice were examined together with the clinical characteristics of patients determined with early stage breast cancer. Patients and Methods: A retrospective examination was made of the records of 95 patients diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in our clinic at Suleyman Demirel University Medical Faculty Hospital in 2013-2015. Results: All the patients diagnosed and treated in our clinic for early stage invasive ductal carcinoma were female. Patients were diagnosed at a median age of 57 years. The treatment applied was breast-conserving surgery and sentinel lymph node sampling in 32,6%, breast-conserving surgery and axillary dissection in 8,4%, simple mastectomy and sentinel lymph node sampling in 4,2% and modified radical mastectomy in 54,7%. Within the surgical procedures applied for early stage breast cancer, breast-conserving surgery was applied at the rate of 41,4% and sentinel lymph node sampling at 36,8%. Conclusion: No difference was determined between the patients with early stage breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery and those who underwent mastectomy in terms of general survival and disease-free survival periods. From a cosmetic aspect, the breast-conserving surgery was without doubt more successful and is being increasingly used in our clinical practice.