The Vinalopó Hospital implements endoscopic mastectomy, a "pioneer" technique to treat breast cancer

ALICANTE, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Vinalopó University Hospital has implemented a "new and advanced" surgical technique for the treatment of breast cancer. This is endoscopic mastectomy, also known as endoscopic breast surgery, a "pioneer" technique that offers a "less invasive, less painful and more aesthetic" interventional option to address breast cancer with the same guarantees.

Endoscopic mastectomy is an endoscopy-assisted surgery that only requires making a three-centimeter incision in the armpit, to introduce a device that allows the breast to be expanded with CO2 gas to create a work space and, through optics, see the tissue and introduce the surgical instruments, as indicated by the Ribera Group - manager of the hospital - in a statement.

This is a new technique of oncoplastic and conservative surgery of the Breast Unit, which allows the skin and nipple to be preserved, the affected breast tissue to be removed through "much smaller" incisions and breast reconstruction to be performed "in a immediate with minimal aggression.

The surgical coordinator of the Ribera Group's Breast Area, Lorenzo Rabadán, explained that, with the incorporation of this surgical technique, patients "are benefited by a less invasive intervention, which lasts the same time as traditional surgery and which It's very little painful."

Furthermore, the head of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Ariel Marshall, added that, during the intervention, bleeding is minimized, since they use specific energy devices and "the skin does not suffer, because the gas used is what maintains the stable breast and no tractions are performed.

All of these factors allow the patient to be discharged even on the same day of the intervention, with the support of the Home Hospitalization Unit, and to have a "faster recovery and with less pain."

Specialists have also highlighted that the procedure has advantages for the surgeons themselves, since it allows them "perfect vision and absolute control of the surgery in all parts of the breast through a monitor."

It is an effective technique for patients with different types, sizes and stages of breast cancer that allows it to adapt to the shape of the patient's breast. "In the event that the breast has to be elevated because it is very sagging, another surgical technique would have to be used because, although we are making progress in this aspect, at the moment it could not be elevated by endoscopy," they stated.

"In addition to achieving the oncological result, with breast surgeries we seek an aesthetic goal to minimize the aggression on body image and so that they can have a completely normal social, family, work and sexual life for the rest of their life," they have highlighted. .