Good morning everybody So! Finally, year 2020 is over. We all know that this has been a year of unprecedented difficulties. We all struggled in every single part of our everyday life-at work, with patients, with relatives and with our social life. But we are ready for...
G.Re.T.A. and its team are honoured to be part of the JBO 2020 Oncoplasty Brazilian Journey with Giuseppe Catanuto as an invited speaker for two talks in the Session 8 on "Hot topics in Oncoplastic Surgery". Thanks to Nicola Rocco, we'll bring some promising preliminary results...
Dear friends and colleagues, Tonight, we are glad to gather Prof. Bahadir Gulluoglu and the team from SENATURK for a joint meeting on shared decision making. As you know, our founder and Honorary Chairman Maurizio Nava has been a relentless promoter of patients' involvement in the...
The interviews of the International Fellowship Mr G Querci della Rovere are now over and we have two new appointed fellows: Samantha Muktar and Mustafa al-Sheikh. [caption id="attachment_16522" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr. Samantha Muktar.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_16523" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Dr. Mustafa al-Sheikh.[/caption] They have been selected among a very long...
Being an “Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon” is not only a matter of refined surgical techniques. You can learn level III oncoplastic surgery, complex breast reconstructions, microvascular surgery or fat transplantation and still you are not a truly Oncoplastic Surgeon! This is our view on the discipline, and...
G.Re.T.A. has been invited to contribute to the new BRESO initiative for training and accreditation of breast surgical oncologists across Europe. In the past Breast surgery was simple and general surgeons were able to perform it easily. Nowadays, as demonstrated in one of our papers on...
Dear Friends, based on the request of some colleagues who didn't have any chance to vote before or during the GRETA webinar last Tuesday, we have re-openend the poll on COVID-19 and breast cancer surgery I want to invite you to express your opinion on...
There is a psychological property that I have observed in many cancer patients. This is RESILIENCE. Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress such as serious health problems LIKE BREAST CANCER, or the...
Once again, it is a great honor being partners of Prof. Cicero Urban and his team in Curitiba for the Oncoplastic Course. Practical skills are part of the basic knowledge of a surgeon. Sometimes learning anatomy, or technical maneuvers while performing surgery in theatre or...
I’m glad to share with you the letters of my colleagues Victoria Teoh MD and Gausihi Sivarajah MD: In the modern era of oncoplastic breast surgery, collaboration between breast surgery and plastic surgery is paramount in delivering holistic breast cancer care. Importance is placed not only...