PURPOSE Despite the established guidelines for breast cancer treatment, there is still variability in surgical treatment after neoadjuvant therapy (NT) for women with large breast tumors. Our objective was to identify predictors of the type of surgical treatment: mastectomy versus breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in women with T3/T4 breast cancer who received NT. METHODS Population-based Flori...

Mastectomy is one of the widely spread surgeries to remove breast cancer, however, this type intervention disturbs ventilatory function patient after surgery. The role physical therapy crucial in such cases as improve respiratory system, and chest expansion, decrease severity dyspnea, provide better health mastectomy. Purpose: study effect muscle training by using (The Breather) on functions wo...

background: breast cancer is the most frequent malignant tumor in women worldwide. in recent years, defined reconstruction principles along with numerous surgical techniques with volume replacement have been published. autologous breast reconstruction is more natural but leaves donor site morbidity. it provides the opportunity to restore the breast mound without the need for scars. this study a...

Complication of chyle leakage is rare post mastectomy, ranging from 0.36 – 0.84%. This case report discuses a chylous mastectomy in 79-year-old female. The complication was suspected when the draining colour axillary drainage change serous fluid to milky colour, diagnosis then confirmed clinically and biochemically as chyle. patient initially managed conservatively, but this not successful refe...

Abstract Aim National reported mastectomy rate varies from 25% - 45%. Improved screening and raised breast awareness raise the demand for cancer treatment. 45% of treatment will be mastectomies, some them followed by reconstruction. Mastectomy +/-reconstruction is a traumatic procedure which affects quality life patients plus extra cost NHS We would like to investigate if technique local perfor...

PURPOSE To use 5 years of primary data to compare the incremental cost-effectiveness of breast conservation and radiation versus mastectomy with the restriction of choice to a single therapy versus providing a choice of either therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated a random retrospective cohort of 2,517 Medicare beneficiaries treated for newly diagnosed stage I or II breast cancer from 19...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. Currently, multimodality treatment is recommended, but the optimal surgical management has not been fully elucidated. In this study, we investigated the long-term outcomes of utilizing breast conserving therapy in IBC patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). 24 patients with IBC were treated from 2002 to...

BACKGROUND Primary breast conserving treatment (BCT) is well known to have similar long-term survival as mastectomy in breast cancer patients. However, recent studies are suggesting better survival among women treated with BCT compared with mastectomy. More knowledge is needed to understand how disease specific survival is influenced by detection mode, prognostic and predictive tumor characteri...

BACKGROUND Invasive lobular cancer (ILC) is biologically distinct from invasive ductal cancer and there is disagreement regarding appropriate local management of this disease. AIM The current study reports long term results comparing mastectomy with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in the treatment of ILC. MATERIAL AND METHODS Study includes 235 women with ILC treated between 1983 and 1987. ...

Skin-sparing mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and synchronous breast reconstruction are widely used in breast cancer surgery nowadays. Difficulties in feeling confident in this technique and postoperative surgical complications are the major obstacles against the widespread usage of this technique. Compared with the other surgical techniques, the complications are hard to treat...