OBJECTIVES To examine whether rate of reoperation after breast conserving surgery is associated with patients' characteristics and investigate whether reoperation rates vary among English NHS trusts. DESIGN Cohort study using patient level data from hospital episode statistics. SETTING English NHS trusts. PARTICIPANTS Adult women who had breast conserving surgery between 1 April 2005 and ...

UNLABELLED Selection of the treatment method in breast cancer patients and its consequences may affect their quality of life through somatic, psychical, and social factors. The aim of the study was early evaluation of the quality of life of women after mastectomy vs. breast conserving surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 100 women aged 31 to 79 years (mean: 57) who underwent surge...

The breast cancer treatment is based nowadays on new surgical options: breast-conserving surgery, which applies at least for the first and second stage cancer, with radical intention. We have been practicing breast-conserving surgery for the last 16 years and we have performed 303 breast conserving operations from a total of 673. We recorded 12 local recurrences (3,96%) and 2 deaths due to canc...

OBJECTIVE Secondary reconstruction after breast-conserving surgery is generally challenging because of the nature of irradiated tissue. The aim of this study was to validate the use of latissimus dorsi myocutaneous (LDM) flaps for secondary breast reconstruction after breast-conserving surgery. METHODS Fifteen consecutive patients who underwent secondary reconstruction with an LDM flap after ...

background: preoperative determination of the extent of viable residual tumor is an important issue after neoadjuvant treatment. on the other hand, retrospective data suggest that breast-conserving surgery is feasible up to stage iiia breast cancer without preoperative therapy. methods: we retrospectively analyzed 164 patients who underwent breastconserving surgery followed by adjuvant chemothe...

Background: Breast conserving surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy has become the standard operation for early breast cancer. This operation has been performed under local anesthesia for patients that would like short-term admission or for those not indicated for general anesthesia due to complications. This report presents the outcomes of breast conserving surgery and sentinel lymph node bio...

Objective: To investigate the effect of breast conserving surgery and modified radical operation modified radical operation for early stage breast cancer patients. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 100 cases of early breast cancer patients in our hospital from January 2010 to November 2011 were divided into conserving group (n=50, using breast conserving surgery) and radical group (n=50, usi...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of second breast-conserving surgery with reirradiation using perioperative high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for the treatment of local recurrence developing after previous breast-conserving therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 1999 and 2007, twelve patients with isolated local recurrence initially treated for breast carcinoma with the...