PURPOSE This study compared the survival outcomes of different treatment methods for the ipsilateral breast of occult breast cancer (OBC) patients with axillary lymph node metastasis. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted in which forty OBC patients with axillary lymph node metastasis were identified out of 15,029 patients who had been diagnosed with a primary breast cancer at between 1...

INTRODUCTION Lymph nodes are one of the main sites where an effective immune response develops. Normally, axillary nodes are the first place where breast cancer produces metastases. Several studies have demonstrated the importance of immune cells, especially dendritic cells, in the evolution of breast cancer. The goal of the project is to identify differences in the patterns of immune infiltrat...

Breast is an uncommon and rare site for metastasis. Primary and secondary tumors of the breast need to be differentiated as management is different. We present a 67 year old female patient with two breast lumps and an axillary lymph node, 5 years after nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). Mammogram report showed a dense spiculated mass at right upper outer quadrant and a retroareolar mas...

Background: Prognostic factors of breast cancer not only act as a guide to overall prognosis but also determine the need for adjuvant therapy.These factors are interrelated and hormone receptor status is an important determinant of prognosis of ca breast. Objective: The aim of this study was to correlate the various prognostic factors in breast cancer.Tumor size (T) ,nodal status (N) ,grade of ...

In this prospective study, duplex Doppler ultrasound was used in 95 consecutive patients with solid breast masses to evaluate the presence of neovascular flow. A positive Doppler signal, i.e., a Doppler shift frequency of more than 1 kHz using a 5 MHz insonating frequency, was found in 34 of 57 patients with a carcinoma, and also in three patients with a benign condition. These results indicate...

In order to know the associations between multifocality (MF), without related multicentricity (MC), and common clinical and biological parameters, and posterior influence in breast carcinoma behavior, we have developed this study. 816 successive women affected from invasive breast carcinomas, of which 96 were multifocal and 720 nonmultifocal were included in the study. We considered age, size, ...

INTRODUCTION Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the breast is a rare condition, and cases in male patients are even less common. CASE We describe a case of ACC of the breast with axillary lymph node metastasis, disseminated osteolytic bone metastasis and bone marrow involvement in a 41-year-old man. CONCLUSION Male breast ACC is an extremely rare malignancy; there can be difficulty in obtain...

We designed a 2-stage study to investigate chemotactic factor receptor 5 (CCR5) gene expression in breast cancer tissues and axillary lymph nodes and analyze the association between the CCR5-Î"32 gene polymorphism and the clinical features and prognosis of breast cancer patients. The first stage examined 72 cases of invasive ductal carcinoma and axillary lymph node tissue, 50 cases of breast fi...

The present study describes the case of a 77-year-old female with a recently self-detected, painless, 7-cm lump in the left breast, without evidence of metastasis clinically, who underwent mastectomy with dissection of the axillary lymph nodes. The tumor did not invade the chest wall and skin. The tumor was comprised of abundant chondroid matrix and fibrous tissue, with focal osteoid matrix, an...