With recent medical advances in diagnosis and treatment, the increasing numbers of long-term survivors of breast cancer is considerable and has resulted in the expansion of scientific research to include examination of lifestyle modifications as means of prevention of recurrence, new breast cancer events, and mortality. The objective of this report is to review randomized controlled trials (RCT...

OBJECTIVES To determine any association between hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) usage and breast cancer recurrence and survival rates in women who were premenopausal at the time of diagnosis of breast cancer. METHODS The study group comprised 524 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer when they were premenopausal. Of these, 277 women reached menopause before recurrence of the disease,...

Life table analysis and other mortality methods apply well to end points other than mortality. This paper demonstrates the application of mortality experience methodology to the recurrence of breast cancer and/or new primaries in women previously diagnosed with primary breast cancer. Specific recurrence rates are broken out by duration as well as attributes available at the time of primary brea...

OBJECTIVE Breast cancer recurrence may be promoted by immunosuppression due to decreased immune surveillance. The aim of this study was to examine the rates of breast cancer recurrence in patients with immune-mediated disease and treated breast cancer who received therapy with methotrexate, thiopurines, or anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF). METHODS Three retrospective cohort studies withi...

PURPOSE To compare the clinical features, natural history, and outcomes for women with "triple-negative" breast cancer with women with other types of breast cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We studied a cohort of 1,601 patients with breast cancer, diagnosed between January 1987 and December 1997 at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. Triple-negative breast cancers were defined as those that were ...

BACKGROUND This retrospective cohort study evaluated whether manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) therapy increases the risk of recurrence of breast cancer. METHODS We analyzed 1,106 women who were diagnosed with stage 0-3 breast cancer between 2007 and 2011 and experienced remission after surgery and adjuvant therapy. The patients were divided into two groups: group A (n=996), in which patients d...

background: breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading global cause of cancer death among women worldwide. radiotherapy plays a significant role in treatment of breast cancer and reduces locoregional recurrence and eventually improves survival. the treatment fields applied for breast cancer treatment include: tangential, axillary, supraclavicular and internal mammary ...

Introduction: Lack of a proper method for early detection and diagnostic errors in medicine are some fundamental problems in treating cancer. Data analysis techniques may significantly help early diagnosis. The current study aimed at applying and evaluating neural networks and decision tree algorithm on breast cancer patients’ data for early cancer prediction. Methods: In the current stu...

Introduction: Lack of a proper method for early detection and diagnostic errors in medicine are some fundamental problems in treating cancer. Data analysis techniques may significantly help early diagnosis. The current study aimed at applying and evaluating neural networks and decision tree algorithm on breast cancer patients’ data for early cancer prediction. Methods: In the current stu...