With over 35 years of experience, and largest number of Breast Oncoplastic surgeries in Asia, Dr.C.B Koppiker is one of the renowned breast cancer surgeon globally. He has a huge contribution in the field of Breast Cancer, for his role as a surgeon, researcher and trainings and educational programs.
Dr. Koppiker is fondly known as the Father of Breast Oncoplasty in India since he has performed more than 2000 breast surgeries till date inclusive of more than 900 breast oncoplastic surgeries, over 200 breast reconstructions & above 850 sentinel node excisions.
He for the first time introduced procedures such as Breast Conserving Surgery, Breast Oncoplastic Surgery, Sentinel Node Biopsy, Mammotome, Vacuum Assisted Biopsy, etc. in India and performed as well as established protocols for conservative breast cancer surgeries since 1994. He established first ever procedure for management of non-palpable lesions of breast in 1995. He was the first in Pune and one of the first pioneers in the country to adopt these procedures.
