Objective: This study was designed to evaluate post-mastectomy functional outcome as regards the frequency and severity of post-mastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS), occurrence of lymphedema (LE), occurrence of shoulder motion restriction, physical and psychological welfare after different types of surgery for early breast cancer. Patients and Methods: The study comprised 28 patients with early brea...

Audio/Video Link *requires RealPlayer free download Dr. Jos Aristodemo Pinotti: "My presentation is related to the kind of strategy that we have been using during the last twelve years in doing histological and cytological monitoring during surgery with the objective to reduce local recurrence in conservative treatment of breast cancer. As you know, in the last forty years one of the most impor...

Audio/Video Link *requires RealPlayer free download Dr. Jos Aristodemo Pinotti: "My presentation is related to the kind of strategy that we have been using during the last twelve years in doing histological and cytological monitoring during surgery with the objective to reduce local recurrence in conservative treatment of breast cancer. As you know, in the last forty years one of the most impor...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY A retrospective analysis on 1407 patients with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and 243 invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) was performed in order to compare the histological features, the immunohistochemical characteristics, the surgical treatment and the clinical outcome in the two groups. RESULTS ILC seems to be more likely multifocal, estrogen receptor positive, HER-2 neg...

Malignant phyllodes tumor is a subtype of fibroadenomas but with invasive behaviors that accounts for 1% all breast cancers. About one in every 4 phyllode tumors malignant. The available treatment modalities malignant are wide excision or mastectomy adjuvant radiotherapy and case distant metastasis, chemotherapy added. However, Due to its scarcity, there no enough data about the best modality w...

BACKGROUND Interest in the use of preoperative systemic treatment in the management of breast cancer has increased because such neoadjuvant therapy appears to reduce the extent of local surgery required. We compared the clinical end points of patients with breast cancer treated preoperatively with systemic therapy (neoadjuvant therapy) and of those treated postoperatively with the same regimen ...

During the first three quarters of the twentieth century, radical mastectomy was an accepted and common procedure in the management of patients with early stage cancer of the breast. After a lifetime of thinking about and working with patients with early-stage breast cancer, Vera Peters presented and published, in the mid-1970s, a retrospective historical case-control study that demonstrated th...

The symptoms of ovarian tumor are not specific and a rare presentation of the tumor is as the content of an inguinal hernia. We reported a case of an 82-year-old woman, diagnosed with breast cancer and with a concomitant hypoecoic adnexal mass at the ecographic exam. The patient was treated with conservative breast surgery and laparotomy. A cystic-solid ovarian lesion was found inside the right...