Breast Cancer Essentials (PDF)

Mahdi Rezai is a Breast Surgeon and Gynecologist, Director of the Düsseldorf Breast Center, Founder of the European Academy of Senology, of the first breast center in Germany, and the International Senology Initiative, as well as a member of EUROMA. After his medical studies in Paris and Düsseldorf, he worked at the gynecological hospital in Düsseldorf - Gerresheim, where he was appointed as a senior doctor and chief medical representative of the Senology department. Since 1997, he has been Medical Director of the Düsseldorf Breast Center, Luisen hospital. His activities mainly focus on breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer, reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery, oncology for breast cancer, and post-operative treatment.

Mehmet Ali Kocdor is a Professor of Surgery at Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty, Department of Surgery, Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit since 2008. Dr. Kocdor received his medical degree at Ankara University College of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency program at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He completed a Fulbright Scholarship program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Research Laboratory, Philadelphia (USA). Dr. Kocdor's areas of clinical and laboratory expertise include oncoplastic breast surgery, thyroid and parathyroid disorders; 3D cell culture, laboratory modelling in breast and thyroid cancer research. He is member of the International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC), Breast Surgery International (BSI), the International Association for Endocrine Surgery, SENATURK (Turkish Academy of Senology), Turkish Surgical Society, Turkish Society of Biochemistry and wise president of Aegean Surgical Society.



Nuh Zafer Canturk is a professor of Surgery and Surgical Oncology and also the Medical Director of Kocaeli University Hospital. He is the founder and vice president of Turkish Senology Academia (SENATURK), Society of Kocaeli Breast Disorders, andpresident of