Breast centers: Rationale, functional concept, definition, and certification

Certification and survival rate. Treatment in hospital with a high frequency of operations seems to lead to a decrease in mortality risk:This effect remains constant throughout all stages of the disease. Specialization and interdisciplinarity. Overall survival increases with the level of the physician's specialization. This effect is explained by their greater surgical experience and the use of optimized adjuvant therapy that can be provided on an individualized basis in interdisciplinary centers: Thus interdisciplinarity also plays a major role for survival benefit. Certified breast centers. An interdisciplinary breast center should offer a combination of all interventions. Creation of a comprehensive quality management and certification system serves to support the center's work.