Montpellier University Hospital offers a new mastectomy technique without visible scarring for patients with breast cancer. This innovative method, which hides the scar under the arm, helps reduce aesthetic after-effects.
The Montpellier University Hospital is innovating by now offering breast cancer patients an operation without visible scars. This technique, called Endoscopic Mastectomy, makes it possible to conceal the scar under the arm, thus offering an aesthetic benefit significant. The news is announced this Thursday, October 3, as Operation Pink October begins, which consists of preventing the appearance of breast cancer. This is a major advance in the treatment of breast cancer.
In 2018, the Montpellier University Hospital had already carried out, as part of a study, the first breast surgery without visible scars and without robotic assistance, for cancer prevention. There Endoscopic Mastectomy uses a small camera and endoscopic tools to perform the operation, thus allowing the scar to be hidden under the arm. Breast reconstruction is carried out during the same operation by placing a breast implant. This technique reduces aesthetic after-effects, and thus provides relief to patients.
A new step in the treatment of breast cancer in Montpellier
Since then, the service of Doctor Gauthier Rathat, medical manager of the gynecological and breast surgery department, has carried out more than 50 mastectomies according to this principlemaking the Montpellier University Hospital a pioneer in Europe. A first study, financed largely by donations from the Montpellier Queen, included around twenty patients for preventive indications.
Today, this advance is extended to patients requiring breast ablation. Montpellier University Hospital is launching a new study, entitled “Neomamendo”, aimed at extend this technique to patients with breast cancer. By limiting aesthetic after-effects, this innovative approach hopes to improve the experience of patients.
