Multicenter study
Single-Port Robot-Assisted Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy: The SPROUT Study
Choi et al. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2026.
Study in one sentence
The researchers described early surgical outcomes and operative experience with single-port robot-assisted nipple-sparing mastectomy across 12 Korean institutions.
Why was this study conducted?
Earlier reports of robot-assisted breast surgery were often based on experience from a limited number of highly specialized centers.
The SPROUT study was designed to describe early multicenter Korean experience with a single-port robotic platform.
How was the study performed?
The retrospective study included patients with primary breast cancer who underwent single-port robot-assisted nipple-sparing mastectomy, with or without axillary surgery and immediate reconstruction.
Data were collected from 12 Korean institutions for procedures performed between 2018 and 2023.
A total of 428 patients were included. Of these, 81.5% had invasive carcinoma and 18.5% had ductal carcinoma in situ.
What this may mean for patients
The study indicates that single-port robot-assisted nipple-sparing mastectomy has been implemented across multiple Korean institutions rather than at only one center.
It provides information about procedure performance in selected patients during an early multicenter adoption period.
Patients considering this approach should still compare it with conventional nipple-sparing mastectomy.
What this study does not prove
Source
View the original publicationDOI: 10.1245/s10434-026-19262-4 · PubMed ID: 41724918
Editorial note
Summary based on the published abstract. Comparative superiority claims have not been added because the abstract does not support them.