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Introduction:Women undergoing mastectomy choose to pursue breast reconstruction (BR) in order to reduce their body image distress.Adjuvant chest wall irradiation is associated with a negative cosmetic outcome. The aim of our review was to identify the optimal timing of BR relating to radiotherapy delivery.Materials and Methods:Using Cochrane Library, Embase, PubMed, Springer, Wanfang and CNKI, we performed a non-systematic review of articles published up to August 2021.Result:There is no hard evidence in favor of immediate, delayed or 2-stage BR when post-mastec-tomy radiation is indicated. Immediate and 2-stage BR seem to be valid alternatives to delayed BR.Conclusion:Further research is essential in order to assess clinician and patient reported aesthetic outcomes and determine the optimal timing of BR in view of post-mastectomy radiotherapy, in breast cancer survivors.

Auteur(s) : Stamatis GREGORIOU1 stamgreg@yahoo.gr, Charalambos KAZAKOS1, Eleftheria CHRISTOFIDOU2, George KONTOCHRISTOPOULOS3, George VAKIS4, Dimitrios RIGOPOULOS1 1 University of Athens Medical School, Department of Dermatology, Andreas Sygros Hospital, 5 Ionos Dragoumi Str, 16121 Athens, Greece 2 Pathology Department, Andreas Sygros Hospital, 5 Ionos Dragoumi Str, 16121 Athens, Greece 3 2nd Department of Dermatology, Andreas Sygros Hospital, Athens, Greece 4 Department of Dermatology, Larnaca [...]