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Innovation In The Age Of Breast-Conserving Surgery

Medical device and diagnostic companies are developing innovative new products for women with breast cancer designed to facilitate earlier diagnosis, improve diagnostic accuracy, increase surgical precision, and enable the least invasive, most breast-conserving approach to breast cancer surgery. With the number of breast cancer cases in the US projected to increase dramatically by 2030, the success of these technologies depends on their ability to improve cosmetic results and survival rates while lowering overall health care costs.

Earlier this year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented statistics from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) showing that the number of breast cancer cases in the US is expected to be 50% higher in 2030 than it was in 2011, increasing from a total of 283,000 cases to 441,000 cases. In 2015 alone, an estimated 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the US, in addition to 60,290 new cases of noninvasive, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) breast cancer, according to the most recent statistics from the American Cancer Society. Moreover, this year, 40,290 women in the US are expected to die of breast cancer.

Although the overall number of breast cancer cases is growing, the most difficult-to-treat breast cancer, estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative cancer, is declining in proportional terms. According to data from the NCI presented...

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