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Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital prides itself on its high rates of breast conserving surgery. Our patients have breast conserving surgery 87.1% of the time. This is higher than the state of Massachusetts' breast conserving surgery rate of 82% and all Commission on Cancer (CoC) programs' average rate of 63% (Cancer Quality Improvement Program (CQIP) 2014 Annual Report).
According to a 2015 Journal of the American College of Surgeons study, most women with early-stage breast cancer are now avoiding extensive lymph node removal. It also points out that more surgeons are following scientic evidence that says radical operations may no longer be necessary for these patients.
Surgery can play a necessary role in the treatment of breast cancer. Some of the surgeries that are used in the treatment of brast cancer include:
Mastectomy: Surgically removing all breast tissue
Lumpectomy: Surgically removing just the tumor
Breast Reconstruction: Surgically repairing or reconstructing the breast following a mastectomy or lumpectomy
Breast cancer surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital is handled by the surgical oncologists at the Mass General Cancer Center.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital remains at the forefront of breast reconstruction technologies. By offering cutting-edge procedures, we are seeing better outcomes in our patients. Innovations in technology are making our options safer and less painful and allow our patients to achieve better results from their breast reconstruction procedures.
The Hospital prides itself on its high percentage of mastectomy reconstruction rates. Our patients have mastectomy reconstruction 67% of the time. According to a study published in the May 2012 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, 37.8% of women had reconstruction surgery. And in a study published in the January 2006 Journal of American Medicine, national reconstruction rates were only 16.5%. We attribute our high rates to the increased availability of our specialists and our emphasis on educating our patients and referring physicians.
Over the last decade, breast reconstruction options offered have improved dramatically in the United States. Research and innovative new techniques have made breast reconstruction safer and less painful. Newton-Wellesley Hospital has been a leader in using many of these new technologies. We can now customize many of our treatments for each patient. We offer accellular dermal matrix tissue grafts, such as AlloDerm®, that allows immediate use of the breast pocket and excess skin. It also allows us to consider immediate implant placement and may provide decreased pain and capsule formation.
We also use SPY Elite™ cameras which provide real-time information to our surgeons to better visualize and assess the viability of mastectomy skin flaps and TRAM flaps. Using these cameras often helps us avoid the need for later surgeries. It decreases the complications of delayed healing and fat necrosis and can also be used in nipple sparing mastectomies.