Onco-mammology

Oncomammology is a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of malignant tumors of the mammary glands.

A mammologist is a specialist who examines and treats diseases of the mammary glands. His patients are women suffering from mastitis, mastopathy, benign and malignant tumors.

Another important task of a mammologist is preventive examinations, which must be held once a year. In this case, the task of the mammologist is to identify the smallest symptoms of pathology, unnoticed by the woman herself.

Consultation with a mammologist is necessary for women who have found the following symptoms of the disease:

• indistinct lumps in the breast tissue;

• soreness to touch;

• milk retention in new mothers;

• cracked nipple;

• nipple discharge outside lactation;

• puffiness and redness;

• breast asymmetry;

• axillary lymph node enlargement;

• deformation of the areola.

IN PATLAZHAN CLINIC YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTACT OUR Mammologist

Specialty: mammologist, oncosurgeon of the highest category, candidate of medical sciences

Education and activities

1993-1999 – Odessa State Medical University, Faculty of Medicine

1999-2001 – internship in the specialty: surgeon on the basis of the Department of General Surgery, OSMU

2001-2021 year:

Since 2001, for 20 years he worked in the specialty “Oncosurgery” and “Oncology” in the Odessa Regional Oncological Dispensary and the clinic of the Medical University

Since 2010, the highest qualification category in the specialty “Oncosurgery”.

Since 2012, a member of the ESMO (European Association of Oncologists)

Since 2014, a member of the EUSOMA (European Breast Cancer Association)

In 2014 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of medical sciences

Work experience

2009, 2013 – internship at the Republican Clinical Oncological Dispensary of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan)

2016 – internship at the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after I. A.A. Shalimova (Kiev)

2016, 2021 – internship at the Israeli clinic LISOD (Kiev)

2011-2018 – Assistant at the Department of Oncology, ONMedU

2013-2018 – Chief Freelance Oncologist of the Health Department of the Odessa City Council

2018 – internship at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan)

2019 – internship at the National Institute of Oncology (Budapest)

2005-2010 and 2018-2020 – Head of the Breast Center, Breast Department of the Oncological Dispensary

2018 – for the first time in the region introduced the method of removal of the sentinel lymph node in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and melanoma (using the radiopharmaceutical technetium 99mTc)

THE DOCTOR IS SPECIALIZED IN THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS:

• • Diagnostics and treatment of benign breast diseases (dysplasia, cysts, fibroadenomas, hematomas, papillomas).

  • Diagnostics and surgical treatment of breast cancer (organ-preserving surgery, oncoplastic lumpectomy, reconstructive surgery after mastectomy).

  • Sentinel lymph node removal when
    surgical treatment of breast cancer and melanoma (with technetium 99mTc).

  • Diagnostics and treatment of benign and malignant skin neoplasms (papilloma, cancer, melanoma).

  • Plastic surgery on the mammary glands (augmentation, lifting, balancing surgery).

  • Diagnostics, treatment of gynecomastia and breast cancer in men.

We offer two diagnostic methods

Diagnosis of breast diseases.

• • Consultation with a mammologist. Includes history taking, examination and palpation.

  • Ultrasound examination of the mammary glands and axillary lymph nodes.

  • Mammography. Women over 40 are advised to undergo mammography once every 1-2 years.

  • Ductography – mammography with contrast enhancement of the breast ducts. It is used for certain indications to detect intraductal neoplasms of the mammary gland.

  • Breast ultrasound. An innovative diagnostic method that allows the doctor to assess the structure of organ tissue and identify pathological changes in the early stages of development.

  • Morphological diagnostics. Study of the cellular and tissue composition of the tumor obtained by fine-needle puncture, CORE-biopsy or open biopsy. This method allows you to establish a final diagnosis and prescribe the necessary treatment.

Diagnosis of predisposition to breast cancer.

• • Molecular genetic diagnostics. Examination of tumor tissue, blood or saliva for the presence of mutations in the BRCA1 and 2 genes. When a mutation in this gene is detected, the risk of breast and / or ovarian cancer increases dramatically.

  • Collecting a family cancer history (the presence of relatives who have had cancer).

  • Other risk factors (female gender, age over 40, abortion, lack of childbirth and breastfeeding, injury, obesity, smoking, etc.)