Dr Öncel Yakar’s comments

In today’s medicine, where the concept of personalized treatment has become widespread, there are targeted drugs that can be used in treating breast diseases. Treatment success may increase with their use in certain types of cancer. Similarly, with another current application, it is possible to reduce the tumor diameter and to perform breast-conserving surgery by giving chemotherapy to suitable patients in the preoperative period.

Breast health plays an important role in every woman’s life. This is based on the facts that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and that early diagnosis and treatment significantly increase life expectancy thanks to screening methods. While stricter follow-up and examination protocols are applied in women with certain risk factors, women with no risk factors should also have breast screening regularly for these reasons. Standard breast screening guidelines recommend that women should perform breast self-examination from the age of 20, and additionally, from the age of 40, breast imaging with clinical examination and mammography once a year. In this section, especially in the twenty-fifth year of her profession and as a female surgeon, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Didem Öncel Yakar answers the questions frequently asked by you. We are with you to manage your routine annual scans and appropriate examination-surgery-treatment processes in our practice in Ataşehir.