Male breast cancer is a rare disease, often with a late presentation and poor prognosis. The mainstay of treatment is modified radical mastectomy, with axillary node dissection to assess stage, prognosis and the need for adjuvant treatment. When matched for age, tumour size, grade and axillary nodal status, the prognosis is similar for males and females. Concerted efforts must be made to educat...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. Currently, multimodality treatment is recommended, but the optimal surgical management has not been fully elucidated. In this study, we investigated the long-term outcomes of utilizing breast conserving therapy in IBC patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). 24 patients with IBC were treated from 2002 to...

BACKGROUND Modified radical mastectomy is associated with appreciable blood loss, while endotracheal intubation leads to elevated hemodynamic responses. The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of dexmedetomidine infusion as an anesthetic adjuvant to general anesthesia during modified radical mastectomy with I-Gel. METHODS Sixty adult consenting female patients, of American S...

A chronic hypertensive patient with electrocardiogram (ECG) showing left bundle branch block (LBBB) was given general anesthesia for right modified radical mastectomy. Her ECG reverted to normal sinus rhythm intermittently during peri-operative period. This intermittent ratedependent LBBB is a rare entity. Though hypertension is one significant co-morbid condition, the risk evalution of LBBB du...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, and the second cause of cancer mortality after pulmonary cancer in this gender. Radiotherapy is one of the major treatments, which locally controls the disease and prohibits in recurrency. Radiation pneumonitis is one of the radiotherapy complications, which usually occurs within 1.5-3 months after radiotherapy. As there is...

Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of death as a result of neoplasia in Mexico. This study aimed to identify the direct and indirect costs of treating female outpatients diagnosed with BC at a Mexican public hospital. A cross-sectional, observational, analytical study was conducted. A total of 506 medical records were analyzed and 102 were included in the cost analysis. The micro-co...

Introduction For most of the recent decades, the major focus of radiation oncology in the management of breast cancer has been on performing both randomized and nonrandomized trials comparing breast-conserving therapy (BCT) using surgery and radiation with the more traditional modified radical mastectomy (MRM). With data confirming equivalent survival with these 2 local-regional therapies in th...

CONTEXT Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the breast is an extremely rare form of cancer, accounting for approximately 0.04% of all malignant breast tumors. To date, only a limited number of cases of SCC of the breast have been reported, and most of them presented like the usual breast carcinomas. CASE REPORT A 39-year-old woman presented with a large breast abscess and signs of sepsis. After ...