oncoplastic

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English

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Etymology

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From onco- +‎ plastic.

Adjective

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oncoplastic (not comparable)

  1. (surgery) Describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer
    • 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[1], volume 18, →DOI:
      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.