Their recurrence rate, she said, is comparable to reported rates of disease recurrence after standard mastectomy. Furthermore, the procedure has several advantages over standard mastectomy. "Often, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A shorter radiation therapy regimen conferred similar outcomes as standard of care for women undergoing breast ...

Decision Support for Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Effects of an Interactive Breast Cancer CDROM on Treatment Decision, Satisfaction, and Quality of Life PURPOSE: Risk factors for local and ...

DESTINY-Breast05 is a large phase 3 trial in women with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer who had chemotherapy and ...

Delayed musculoskeletal symptoms after breast radiotherapy can reflect osteoradionecrosis rather than recurrence, thus ...

Patients with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer whose nodes are pathologically tumor-free (ypN0) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy may safely skip post-mastectomy nodal irradiation without ...

When locoregional recurrence does occur, radiation treatment is feasible, particularly with reconstructions using autogenous tissue from the patient. In the MD Anderson Cancer Center series, [16] 19 ...

The role of postmastectomy chest-wall irradiation in patients with breast cancer classified as pN1 (with involvement of one to three axillary nodes) or pN0 (pathologically node negative) with ...

The benefit of regional nodal irradiation in the treatment of breast cancer is well established for patients with pathologically positive axillary nodes, but whether it is also beneficial for patients ...

Overweight and obese women face a higher risk of breast cancer, especially after menopause. Doctors warn that excess weight ...