oncoplastic
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- (surgery) Describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer
- 2015 June 26, Zisun Kim et al., “The Basic Facts of Korean Breast Cancer in 2012: Results from a Nationwide Survey and Breast Cancer Registry Database”, in Journal of Breast Cancer[1], volume 18, :
- Increases in the proportion of early breast cancer patients and the wide adoption of oncoplastic surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy may have contributed to these observed changes in surgical trends.