Breast Medicine

The Breast Department integrates comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant breast diseases, breast health care, breast cancer screening, breast cancer surgery, postoperative rehabilitation, psychological counseling, and genetic counseling, providing patients with breast diseases one-stop, individualized, professional, systematic comprehensive diagnosis and treatment and precise treatment services.

The Breast Department has a highly skilled professional medical team, including 2 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 6 attending physicians, and 3 resident physicians. Among them are 8 medical doctors, 2 doctoral students, and 3 medical masters. Guided by advanced treatment concepts aligned with international standards, the department performs various breast operations, radical mastectomy, breast-conserving and reconstructive surgery, sentinel lymph-node biopsy, breast reconstruction for stage I and stage II breast cancer, minimally invasive surgery for benign breast masses, and comprehensive postoperative treatment including chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. In 2023, it became one of the first pilot centers for quality control of standardized breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment. In recent years, it has published more than 60 papers in core journals and SCI journals on breast-disease research, and its staff have edited or co-edited five medical books. The department undertakes and participates in multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, and the Shanghai Shenkang Development Center, as well as international multicenter clinical trials of breast cancer and the national collaborative group for randomized controlled clinical studies of breast-cancer treatment. As the leading institution of the Breast Disease Prevention and Treatment Committee of the Shanghai Association for Eugenics and Better Birth, it also actively conducts breast-disease education, free clinics, and other public-welfare activities.