Amie Lee, MD, contributed an editorial to Radiology, the journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) titled “Nipple-sparing Mastectomy in the Era of Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy: The Accuracy of Preoperative MRI.” Dr. Lee is an associate professor in the breast imaging division in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.
Historically, nipple-sacrificing mastectomy was the standard of care for therapeutic mastectomy. However, the past decade has witnessed a substantial rise in nipple-sparing mastectomy, which has been shown to be safe and effective in carefully selected patients. In the editorial, Dr. Lee discusses the study by Bae and Ahn et al, in which resolution of non-mass enhancement extension to the nipple on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) predicted the feasibility of nipple-sparing…
