To investigate association between breast cancer risk and nutrients intake in Korean women, a case-control study was carried out, at Seoul, Korea. Incident cases (n=224) were identified through the cancer biopsy between February 1999 and December 2000 at two University hospitals in Seoul. Hospital-based controls (n=250) were selected from patients in the same hospitals, during the same periods....

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether women receiving dose-dense chemotherapy for breast cancer experience different levels of fatigue than women receiving standard chemotherapy regimens for the disease. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pilot study. SETTING Private physicians' offices in California. SAMPLE 15 women with stage I, II, or III breast cancer receiving dose-dense or standard chemoth...

AIMS External beam radiotherapy is being used regularly to treat the breast malignancy postoperatively. The contribution of collimator leakage and scatter radiation dose to contralateral breast is of concern because of high radio sensitivity of breast tissue for carcinogenesis. This becomes more important when the treated cancer breast patient is younger than 45 years and therefore the contrala...

The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using a multiple partial volumetric-modulated arcs therapy (MP-VMAT) technique on the left breast irradiation and to evaluate the dosimetry and treatment efficiency. Ten patients with left-sided breast cancer who had been treated by whole breast irradiation were selected for the treatment plan evaluation by using six partial volumetric ...

To evaluate radiometal-babeled humanized BrE-3 (huBrE-3) monocbonal antibody as a radioimmunolocalization and therapeutic agent in breast cancer patients, tumor localization, phannacokinetics, radiation dosimetry, and immunogenicity of “ ‘In-labeled combined 1-p-isothiocyanatobenzyl 3-methyland 1-p-isothiocyanatobenzyl 4-methyldiethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (MX-DTPA) huBrE-3 were studied. ...

BACKGROUND The advantages of Rapid Arc plans versus Intensity modulated radiotherapy plans for Carcinoma left breast were analyzed. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study 20 Post mastectomy carcinoma left breast patients were analyzed. Both Intensity modulated Radiotherapy and Rapid Arc plans were generated for these patients. IMRT plans with 7 beams in an arc fashion and VMAT plans with two sem...

The purpose of this study was to assess the possibility of introducing site-specific range margins to replace current generic margins in proton therapy. Further, the goal was to study the potential of reducing margins with current analytical dose calculations methods. For this purpose we investigate the impact of complex patient geometries on the capability of analytical dose calculation algori...

OBJECTIVE Several studies have been published regarding the use of bismuth shielding to protect the breast in computed tomography (CT) scans and, up to the writing of this article, only one publication about barium shielding was found. The present study was aimed at characterizing, for the first time, a lead breast shielding. MATERIALS AND METHODS The percentage dose reduction and the influen...