Bckground: Adjuvant radiation therapy is commonly administered following breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer patients. Hypofractionated radiotherapy can significantly reduce the waiting time for radiotherapy, working load on machines, patient visits to radiotherapy departments and medical costs. Material/Methods: Fifty-two patients with operable breast cancer (pT1-3pN0M0) who underwent ...

BACKGROUND Little data exist on the safety of elective breast surgery following breast conservation therapy. OBJECTIVES The authors evaluate their experience performing reduction mammaplasties and mastopexies in previously irradiated breasts. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted of all reduction mammaplasties and mastopexies in previously irradiated breasts performed by the 2 ...

Positive margins and the resulting multiple operations are a major problem for breast conservation therapy. Accurate assessment of intraoperative tumor margins can limit multiple re-excision procedures. Intraoperative touch preparations have been used in the past but can be difficult to interpret without an experienced cytopathologist. The objective of this study is to examine the reliability o...

INTRODUCTION Recommendations for adjuvant treatment of DCIS after breast conservation are controversial. We tried to identify further risk factors in a retrospective study of our own practice. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three hundred and thirty-two patients treated by breast conservation between 1978 and 2001 at the Department of General Surgery, University of Vienna were analysed. Tumour size, nuc...

BACKGROUND The addition of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her2) therapies to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) during treatment of Her2-positive breast cancer has been proposed as an effective way to improve the prognosis. However, the treatment outcomes of adding trastuzumab, lapatinib, or both to NAC were not unequivocal in randomized clinical trials. Based on these data, a meta-analy...

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common among women in world. Differences treatment of breast may be observed by age, disease stage, place residence and comorbid conditions. Aim: The aim study was to analyse differences use breast-conserving surgery Świętokrzyskie Province. Material methods: included 483 female residents Province who were diagnosed with invasive 2013. Following indicator...

BACKGROUND Adjuvant radiation therapy is commonly administered to breast cancer patients who received breast-conserving surgery. However, lengthy treatment times of standard radiotherapy pose certain challenges. Here, we performed a prospective controlled study comparing standard radiation to hypofractionated radiotherapy in terms of efficacy and outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighty breast ca...

We report on two cases where breast magnetic resonance imaging examination changed clinical management. Breast magnetic resonance imaging is now recognised as an indispensable adjunctive examination to mammography and ultrasound. In each of the two cases described, breast magnetic resonance imaging revealed unsuspected, extensive, and mammographically and ultrasonologically occult, ductal carci...

background : breast carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor and leading cause of cancer deaths in women. while fine needle aspiration cytology is highly accurate in the diagnosis of breast lesions, it possesses certain drawbacks. in those circumstances intraoperative imprint cytology assumes importance, however, imprint cytology is subjected to interpretative errors. computer image analysi...

In the past few decades, the surgical treatment of early breast cancer has evolved from radical mastectomy to breast conservation surgery and the current practice of segmental mastectomy and radiotherapy. As these less invasive techniques have gained acceptance with excellent long-term rates of local-regional control, there has been a growing interest in the surgical community in techniques to ...