Four hundred consecutive patients aged under 70 years diagnosed with a clinical T1 or T2 breast cancer were randomised to receive post-operative radiotherapy (n = 208) or not (n = 192), and monitored to record all local recurrences, distant recurrences and deaths for up to 20 years (median 13.7 years). All patients were treated by wide local excision and adjuvant therapy [estrogen receptor (ER)...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the radiotherapy to prostatic bed in patients with biochemical recurrence for prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyse the results of 292 patients underwent radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer T1-T2 between January 1992 and June 2003, with an average folow-up of 36 months (range 6 months to 12 years). We...

BACKGROUND Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), a rare low-grade sarcoma of fibroblast origin, tends to extend in a finger-like fashion beyond macroscopic tumor margins. Therefore, incomplete removal and subsequent recurrence are common. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of wide local excision (WLE) for controlling local recurrence of DFSP. METHODS The medical records of 90 DFSP p...

UNLABELLED What's known on the subject? and what does the study add?: Local recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP) for clinically organ-confined prostate cancer is largely assumed to occur at the anastomotic site, as reflected in European and North American guidelines for adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy after RP. However, the exact site of local recurrence often remains undetermined. The...

PURPOSE Local recurrence, due to residual tumor, may occur after endoscopic resection for early gastric cancer. The aims of this study are to evaluate the predictive factors for local recurrence, and suggest an appropriate follow-up biopsy strategy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 396 early gastric cancers from 372 consecutive patients, who underwent endoscopic resection bet...

One hundred and twenty patients with FIGO stage Ib-IIa cervical cancer who had radical hysterectomy prior to January 2003 in different hospitals of Bangladesh and thereafter received external beam pelvic radiotherapy (RT) at National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Dhaka were studied. Until December 2007, 50 (42%) patients developed recurrence. Thirty-four (70%) patients experienced ...