It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we are honoring the cause by providing educational resources and dedicating our October ISAPS President’s E-Magazine to topics related to breast health. This edition includes interviews with award winners from the Singapore Congress in the breast category, as well as resources from the ISAPS Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal, MedOne, and the ISAPS Video Library.

Public education, patient safety, support, and research are imperative, and our role as plastic surgeons is to provide the best possible care and outcomes for our patients, as well as to take advantage of the opportunities we have to support and raise awareness for this and the many other diagnoses relevant to our specialty.

If you haven't already done so, please check out the research and educational resources below and stay up-to-date with our Statements & Guidelines page.

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal
Mastectomy Alone or with Immediate Breast Reconstruction: Trend, Precipitating Factors, Patients Reported Outcome, and Oncologic Safety Analysis with and without Propensity Score Matching from 3759 Mastectomy Patients
Yi-Yuan Lee • Hung-Wen Lai • Antonio Muñoz Guevara • Jorge Torres Maldonado • Hui-Yu Lin • Chin-Jung Feng • Bing-Fang Hwang • Shih-Lung Lin • Hsin-I Huang • Fong-Cing Siao • Shou-Tung Chen • Dar-Ren Chen • Chiu-Ying Chen 

MedOne 
Bostwick’s Plastic & Reconstructive Breast Surgery, Glyn Jones
Chapter: 8.9 Fat Grafting as an Adjunct to Implant and Autologous Mastectomy Reconstruction

Online Video Library
Quality of Life of Patients Who Underwent Mastectomy Alone Without Breast Reconstruction Versus Patients Who Underwent Mastectomy With Immediate Breast Reconstruction in a Tertiary Hospital from 2020–2021
- Award Winning Lecture, Rapid Fire Gold Winner, Athens 
Michelle Andrea Itao

Please join us as we continue our dedicated efforts to promote education, awareness, and patient safety, not only during this important month but consistently and routinely.