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This is the home-page of my project iBeSuP, entitled "Towards the simulation of breast surgical lumpectomy and surgery planning through an isogeometric numerical analysis approach." iBeSuP is a Marie Curie sponsored Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (project code 627025), supported by the Research Executive Agency – European Commission, under the 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. A short description of the project scope and aims follows.

Breast cancer is currently the most prevalent form of cancer affecting women all around the world. The treatment of early-stage breast carcinoma involves either lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy or mastectomy. In the former case, only the tumour is removed but asymmetry and distortion of patient's breast may occur. To date, there are no tools that can accurately predict the cosmetic outcome of lumpectomy or breast augmentation surgery, which is to a large extent dependent upon the surgeon's experience and subjective judgement and, therefore, the result of such intervention procedures cannot be fully guaranteed. Thus, there is an acute need for a pre-surgical methodology that could provide both valuable information to the surgical team on pre-operative planning and guarantee a successful cosmetic outcome for the patient.
iBeSuP aims to develop an efficient and accurate numerical tool for realistically simulating oncoplastic breast surgery. The proposed numerical procedure will be based on the newly established isogeometric analysis method, in order to simulate the mechanical behaviour of breast tissues that undergo large deformations during the incision, excision and wound healing process of standard lumpectomy surgery, as well as in breast augmentation with prosthetic implants. Thus, the developed in-silico tool will be capable of incorporating patient-specific breast geometries obtained, for example, through magnetic resonance imaging. As a result, it is expected that the proposed computational framework could assist surgeons in breast surgery pre-operative planning, while providing them with a valuable tool for the cosmetic outcome assessment.