About this Research Topic
The breast is an important organ for women, symbolizing femininity, motherhood, fertility, and sexuality, with both aesthetic and psychological significance. Nowadays, breast-related illnesses in women are on the rise, with breast cancer ranking as the leading global cancer. Traditional breast surgery often entails adverse outcomes, including scarring, breast deformities, and loss of breast tissue, imposing significant psychological burdens on women and diminishing their quality of life. The emerging biopsychosocial medical model emphasizes the importance of considering psychological and social factors alongside disease treatment. Integrating concepts such as aesthetics, humanities, and minimally invasive techniques into breast surgery is not just beneficial but imperative.
Our research topic focuses on aesthetic treatment for breast diseases, with the primary objective of raising awareness among breast surgeons and motivating them to undertake aesthetic breast treatments. Aesthetic treatment for breast diseases is an area of relatively limited focus among breast surgeons. Additionally, conducting aesthetic treatments for breast diseases requires a high level of expertise, such as in oncoplastic breast surgery and endoscopic breast surgery. Doctors must undergo formal training and overcome a learning curve before they can perform these procedures in clinical practice. We aspire to stimulate scholarly discourse within this domain, foster standardization in these surgical techniques, and, in the process of addressing breast diseases, ensure that patients achieve favorable breast aesthetics, thus optimizing their overall well-being.
Any Original Research and Review focusing on the following aspects are welcome:
• Oncoplastic breast surgery
• Minimally invasive breast surgery, including endoscopic breast surgery and robotic breast surgery
• Aesthetic breast surgery, and it as part of breast cancer treatment.
• New surgical approaches and indications for aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
• Educational, skills or learning findings for aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
• Strategies to promote standardization in aesthetic breast treatment procedures.
• Awareness, perception, or barriers related to aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
Our research topic focuses on aesthetic treatment for breast diseases, with the primary objective of raising awareness among breast surgeons and motivating them to undertake aesthetic breast treatments. Aesthetic treatment for breast diseases is an area of relatively limited focus among breast surgeons. Additionally, conducting aesthetic treatments for breast diseases requires a high level of expertise, such as in oncoplastic breast surgery and endoscopic breast surgery. Doctors must undergo formal training and overcome a learning curve before they can perform these procedures in clinical practice. We aspire to stimulate scholarly discourse within this domain, foster standardization in these surgical techniques, and, in the process of addressing breast diseases, ensure that patients achieve favorable breast aesthetics, thus optimizing their overall well-being.
Any Original Research and Review focusing on the following aspects are welcome:
• Oncoplastic breast surgery
• Minimally invasive breast surgery, including endoscopic breast surgery and robotic breast surgery
• Aesthetic breast surgery, and it as part of breast cancer treatment.
• New surgical approaches and indications for aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
• Educational, skills or learning findings for aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
• Strategies to promote standardization in aesthetic breast treatment procedures.
• Awareness, perception, or barriers related to aesthetic treatments of breast diseases.
Keywords: Oncoplastic breast surgery, Aesthetic breast surgery, Minimally invasive breast surgery, Breast diseases, Breast neoplasms
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