BACKGROUND The surgical approach to breast cancer changed dramatically in the past 20 years. The surgical objective today is to remove the tumor, ensuring negative margins and good cosmetic results, and preserving the breast when possible. Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast has become an essential imaging tool prior to surgery, diagnosing additional tumors and assessing tumor extent. Tumo...

PURPOSE Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast represents a rare and heterogeneous group of malignancies that accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancers. The purpose of this study is to better characterize the clinical management of this disease including the role of radiation therapy after surgery. We compared patients that have been treated with either modified radical mastectomy (MRM) or b...

The last quarter of the twentieth century has brought about sweeping changes in the loco-regional treatment of breast cancer. Randomised trials have consistently established that survival rates after conservation surgery and breast irradiation are equivalent to those observed after modified radical mastectomy [1]. Moreover, during the same period the use of mammography in asymptomatic women has...