Professor Kefah Mokbel, Consultant Breast Surgeon at St George’s & The Princess Grace Hospitals and the London Breast Institute has written an article confirming that skin-sparing mastectomy with nipple areola complex preservation appears to be oncologically safe, provided the tumour is not close to the nipple and a frozen section protocol for the retro-areolar tissue is followed.
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The small area of darkened skin surrounding the nipple of the breast
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Abnormal, uncontrolled cell division resulting in a malignant tumour that may invade surrounding tissues or spread to distant parts of the body.
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A group of cells with a similar structure and a specialised function.
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An abnormal swelling.
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