Why isn’t oncoplastic breast surgery widely practised in the UK?
While oncoplastic breast surgery was more widely practised in Europe until recently, the UK government (in 2002) provided funding for nine training posts in oncoplastic breast surgery in the UK. These posts (lasting one year) are aimed at higher surgical trainees in the latter part of their training from either a general surgery or plastic surgery background. There will therefore be more surgeons who will be trained in this specialty.
