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. 2021 Oct 29;2021(10):CD013658. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013658.pub2

Losken 2009.

Study characteristics
Methods Retrospective single‐centre and single surgeon cohort
Before 2004
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA
34 patients
Participants Inclusion:
  • Women with breast cancer undergoing breast‐conserving surgery with or without reconstruction

  • All patients were diagnosed and followed postoperatively at the Emory Winship Cancer Center and the Emory Breast Imaging Center

  • All received adjuvant radiotherapy

  • The control group included women without reconstruction during the same time period by the same surgeon

Interventions Intervention: Volume displacement ‐ breast conservation with reduction, (n = 17)
Control: standard BCS, (n = 17)
Outcomes Primaryoutcomes:
  • Local recurrence


Secondaryoutcomes:
  • Recall rates


Otheroutcomes:
  • Distant recurrence

Notes Different years and outcomes
No disclosures/funding declared
Authors were contacted requesting full dataset for primary outcomes