Oncoplastic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From onco- + plastic.
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