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Background: The introduction of skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) and
nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with immediate reconstruction allowed a
noticeable improvement in reconstructive surgery aesthetic results and patients’
psychophysical well-being. In any case, there are still concerns about the
long-term oncological safety of these two procedures. This study aims to assess
the oncological outcomes of women who underwent SSM and NSM and to compare them
with traditional modified total mastectomy (MTM). The secondary outcome was to
compare mastectomy with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) outcome.
Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review study concerning all
patients who had experienced SSM and NSM in our Clinic between January 2004 and
July 2013. The main outcomes were overall survival (OS), disease-free survival
(DFS), and recurrences cumulative rate. Results: Among this study’s 1836
invasive breast carcinomas, we found NSM (86.7, 95% confidence interval (CI),
76.7–98.0%) to have a significantly shorter 5-year DFS than MTM (90.4%, 95%
CI, 87.9–93.0%). Furthermore, low body mass index (odds ratio (OR) 0.733,
p = 0.056), basal-like molecular subtype (OR 28.932, p
