Mastectomy First, Keeping Chemotherapy and Radiation in Reserve

The sequencing of radiation therapy and chemotherapy after mastectomy in premenopausal women with breast cancer.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic importance of the sequencing of radiation therapy and chemotherapy after mastectomy in high-risk premenopausal women with breast cancer in addition to other known prognostic factors in the literature. METHODS In this retrospective study, 176 premenopausal women with breast cancer were evaluated. The median age at referral was ...

Team Work: Mastectomy, Reconstruction, and Radiation

Breast reconstruction and post-mastectomy radiation practice

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to explore the perspectives and practice of radiation oncologists who treat breast cancer patients who have had breast reconstruction. METHODS In 2010, an original electronic survey was sent to all physician members of the American Society of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Research Institute-Breast Cancer Studies Group in the United Kingdom, Thai Societ...

Dosimetric comparison of TomoDirect and TomoHelical plans in post-mastectomy chest wall radiation therapy

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of TomoDirect (TD) plans compared to conventional TomoHelical (TH) plans in chest wall irradiation in patients with breast cancer. Materials and Methods: TD and TH plans for only chest wall were retrospectively created for 30 patients previously treated with TH technique in our clinic. The beam angles were arranged to cov...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...