Expertise Centre Of Breast Cancer Center

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Korean women these days. Westernized life styles caused the disease and it will be occurred more and more. However, if patients find the disease and give treatment early, it can be cured well. There are several researches in the world on partial mastectomy which can maximize the treatment effect. The first breast cancer center in Korea, Gangnam Severance Breast Cancer Center opened in 1995. It renewed to "Breast Cancer Clinic" and started to offer advanced treatments like breast-conserving therapy and axillary lymph node dissection for the early cancer. Patients who visit the clinic may expect the best, systematic, and developed inspections and treatments. Moreover, there is the breast cancer team including professionals from Surgery, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Endocrinology, Oncology, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Plastic Surgery, and Psychiatry. The team offers perfect diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and plastic as well as counseling for other women's diseases. Patients can get emotional stability from the team. Moreover, the center is famous in clinical and academic areas. It is gradually developed since 2005 May, when Prof. Hee Dae Lee, the head of the center, became the chairman of Korea Breast Cancer Society.