Oncological considerations of skin-sparing mastectomy

Table 1 Oncological safety of skin-sparing mastectomy for invasive breast cancer – summary of recent studies.

Authors	Year	Sample size	L.R. (%)	F/U (months)	Notes
Slavin et al¹⁰	1998	51	2.0	45	26 DCIS cases.
Newman et al⁸	1998	372	6.2	26	T1/T2 tumours.
Simmons et al¹³	1999	77	3.9	60
Toth et al⁴	1999	50	0	51.5
Kroll et al⁹	1999	114	7.0	72	T1/T2 tumours.
Rivadeneira et al¹²	2000	71	5.1	49
Foster et al¹¹	2002	25	4.0	49	Locally advanced.
Medina-Franco et al⁶	2002	176	4.5	73
Spiegel and Butler⁷	2003	177	5.6	118
Carlson et al⁵	2003	539	5.5	65	30.6% DCIS.
Gerber et al¹⁴	2003	112	5.4	59
Downes et al¹⁵	2005	38	2.6	53	'High risk tumours'