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oncoplastic

oncoplastic adjective: describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer.

Adjective

oncoplastic (not comparable)

  1. Describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer
    • Increases in the proportion of early breast cancer patients and the wide adoption of oncoplastic surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy may have contributed to these observed changes in surgical trends.2015 June 26, Zisun Kim et al., “The Basic Facts of Korean Breast Cancer in 2012: Results from a Nationwide Survey and Breast Cancer Registry Database”, in Journal of Breast Cancer, volume 18, →DOI

Origin of oncoplastic

From onco- + plastic.

Questions about oncoplastic

What does oncoplastic mean?
Oncoplastic means describing plastic surgery that mitigates the physical effects of cancer.
What part of speech is oncoplastic?
Oncoplastic is an adjective.

Words near oncoplastic in the dictionary

  1. oncopathology
  2. oncopeptide
  3. oncopeptides
  4. oncopharmacology
  5. oncophysics
  6. oncoplastic
  7. oncoplot
  8. oncoplots
  9. oncopodid
  10. oncopodids
  11. oncopromoting

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