Breast MRI Analysis for Surgeons Using Virtual Reality: Real-life Applications, Clinical Case Reports

Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer and cancer mortality among women worldwide. Surgery is the primary therapeutic strategy of BC in most of the cases. Efficient carcinologic and aesthetic resection requires breast surgeons to accurately understand medical images. Virtual reality (VR) is a promising avenue to improve surgical diagnosis and planning by producing high-precision images. Hereafter we report three cases of patients for which using AVATAR medical device for 3D visualization with VR would have helped to decide surgical strategy and adapt surgical procedure. The three cases are real-life examples of using the VR-AVATAR medical device for breast cancer surgery treatment: evaluation of the tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, decision for breast conservative or radical treatment, decision for loco-regional treatment in metastatic setting. Through these three real-life cases, we describe the potential impact of VR-AVATAR medical device use in clinical daily practice in breast cancer surgery. It seems like a useful tool, easy to use, providing high-quality images, helping with surgery planning and decisions.