oncoplastic
adjEtymology From onco- + plastic.
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Medicine, Sciences, Surgery Describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer
- 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.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, volume 18, →DOI: