Table 1.

Oncological safety of skin-sparing mastectomy for invasive breast cancer – summary of recent studies.

Authors	Year	Sample size	L.R. (%)	F/U (months)	Notes
Slavin et al10	1998	51	2.0	45	26 DCIS cases.
Newman et al8	1998	372	6.2	26	T1/T2 tumours.
Simmons et al13	1999	77	3.9	60
Toth et al4	1999	50	0	51.5
Kroll et al9	1999	114	7.0	72	T1/T2 tumours.
Rivadeneira et al12	2000	71	5.1	49
Foster et al11	2002	25	4.0	49	Locally advanced.
Medina-Franco et al6	2002	176	4.5	73
Spiegel and Butler7	2003	177	5.6	118
Carlson et al5	2003	539	5.5	65	30.6% DCIS.
Gerber et al14	2003	112	5.4	59
Downes et al15	2005	38	2.6	53	'High risk tumours'

Abbreviations: L.R. = local recurrence; F/U = follow-up interval.