Male Breast Cancer: 20-Year Survival Data for Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy

Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: 16. Locoregional post-mastectomy radiotherapy.

OBJECTIVE To provide information and recommendations to assist women with breast cancer and their physicians in making decisions regarding the use of locoregional post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT). OUTCOMES Locoregional control, disease-free survival, overall survival and treatment-related toxicities. EVIDENCE This guideline is based on a review of all meta-analyses, consensus statements ...

Comparison of Acute Toxicities in Conventional and Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in Post-Mastectomy Breast Cancer

Post mastectomy adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer: a comparison of three hypofractionated protocols.

OBJECTIVES To compare three hypofractionated protocols in postmastectomy cancinoma breast in terms of local control, toxicity and work load. METHODS A total of three hundred patients suffering from cancer breast stage T2-4, N any were randomized into three arms after mastectomy. All the patients were treated with four fields on Co60 i.e. two tangential portals for chest wall, one anterior sup...

Benefit of post-mastectomy radiotherapy of the supra-/infraclavicular lymphatic drainage area in breast cancer patients.

BACKGROUND This study investigated the survival benefit of radiotherapy (RT) of the supra- and infraclavicular lymphatic drainage area in Chinese women with T1-2N1M0 breast cancer receiving mastectomy. METHODS A total of 593 cases were retrospectively reviewed from 1998 to 2007. The relationship between supra- or infraclavicular fossa relapse (SCFR) and post-operative RT at the supra-/infracl...

Using data mining techniques for predicting the survival rate of breast cancer patients: a review article

    This review was conducted between December 2018 and March 2019 at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. A review of various studies revealed what data mining techniques to predict the probability of survival, what risk factors for these predictions, what criteria for evaluating data mining techniques, and finally what data sources for it have been used to predict the surv...