2023-09-21 08:50:15
The experts from the “Health and Prevention” blog address, in a new post, the main benefits of magnetic seeds in breast cancer surgical treatments: greater agility and precision, and fewer sequelae for patients
Photo provided by Quirónsalud
Breast cancer is the most common among Spanish women. In fact, one in eight women in our country will suffer from this disease. The good news is the powerful therapeutic arsenal that is available today against this pathology. One of the latest contributions to treatment launched are the so-called ‘magnetic seeds’, devices the size of a grain of rice that are proving to be very useful for marking non-palpable lesions in the breast.
This technique, as highlighted by Dr. José Luis Amaya Lozano, surgeon at the Breast Unit of the Quirónsalud Clideba Hospitalis a “further step” to a “total precision, personalized surgery that reduces sequelae and recovery time”, achieving greater precision for healthcare personnel, and a better experience for the patient.
“This is a new technique that uses these magnetic markers. They are like a small seed, more precise than the techniques used until now and indicate to the surgeon the exact place where he should act; which is a great help when removing non-palpable lesions from the breast and armpit, but with the advantage that it does not move and is a perfectly reliable guide,” explains this specialist surgeon.
Magnetic seeds, greater precision
For his part, the person in charge of the Radiology Unit Interventionist at the Quirónsalud Clideba Hospital, Dr. Anselmo Macayo, highlights that this is a “great advance” because the radiologist, once the lesion is located with mammography or ultrasound, can mark it correctly.
“Marking non-palpable lesions with these magnetic seeds provides precision to the entire process. Once the tumor and the affected lymph nodes have been located, guided by mammograms and ultrasounds, this seed is placed so that, when it is the surgeon’s turn, there is complete precision when locating the point to intervene,” highlights this expert. .
According to Dr. Amaya, with this practice, in addition to achieving greater precision in the intervention, fewer postoperative complications, fewer aesthetic alterations, fewer reinterventions are generated, while the hospital stay of the patients is reduced.
In addition, he also highlights, it represents a highly innovative, less invasive and radiation-free method of precision surgery for patients; In short, a more personalized treatment for breast cancer patients with numerous advantages over the process.
Gain agility and improve response times
Specifically, the surgeon at the Quirónsalud Breast Unit Clideba José Luis Amaya Lozano indicates that the use of these ‘magnetic seeds’ allows for greater agility, thus improving programming times, reducing consultations, and hospital stays. Specifically, he specifies that the technique is applied to non-palpable breast cancer lesions that must be removed.
Previously, to intervene in this type of lesions it was necessary to use markers, or preoperative harpoons, metal threads that served as a guide for the surgeon to act on these non-palpable lesions (tumors, suspicious lymph nodes, etc.), and which were sometimes less precise, and could present displacement problems or hemorrhages that required immediate intervention.
“In those cases there was a possibility that the marker could shift and intervention had to be done immediately after its installation,” says the doctor, while at the same time they could sometimes be annoying for the patients.
Another of its advantages is that as it is a more precise surgery, only those areas that are necessary are resected, consequently reducing postoperative complications, as well as possible consequences in the shoulder and arm of the patients, favoring a higher quality of life in patients. the long-term.
“The improvement in the planning of breast interventions with this technique allows for more agility and improvement in response times, something that has already been tested at the Quirónsalud Clideba Hospital in Badajoz in a very satisfactory manner and that cannot be done anywhere. another hospital in the capital of Badajoz, whether public or private, since Clideba is, today, the only one that includes it in its portfolio of services,” says Dr. Macayo.
Better surgical organization
Furthermore, another advantage that Dr. Macayo points out is that this marker can be placed even several days or weeks in advance, without generating any type of problem or sequelae in the patient; a gesture that subsequently facilitates organization when performing surgery.
“Before, he recalled, it was necessary to combine two teams for this type of intervention and now they can act independently, although always coordinated,” maintains this professional.
Dr. Anselmo Macayo/Photo provided by Quirónsalud
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