Breast cancer surgery

Breast cancer is a common malignant tumor in middle-aged women and above; early diagnosis and early radical surgery have a good prognosis. The radical resection of breast cancer includes the entire breast, surrounding subcutaneous adipose tissue, pectoralis major, pectoralis minor, axillary, and adipose lymphoid tissue under the collarbone, as a whole resection [Figure 1]. In the past 20 years or so, medical staff have made many improvements to the operation method in order to improve the curative effect. However, it has been proved that the improvement of curative effect is not in the size of the resection range, but in the early detection and resection of axillary lymph nodes and supraclavicular lymph node metastasis . The average 5-year survival rate after radical mastectomy for breast cancer is 65% and 67% for enlarged radical mastectomy. The important principle is that routine biopsy should be performed on painless breast masses in middle-aged women and above to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.