Women who have been treated for breast cancer are at risk for second breast cancers, such as ipsilateral recurrence or contralateral metachronous breast cancer. As the number of breast cancer survivors increases, interest in patient management and surveillance after treatment has also increased. However, post-treatment surveillance programs for patients with breast cancer have not been firmly e...

OBJECTIVE To study the recurrence of breast cancer among patients who were using the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG IUS). DESIGN A retrospective, controlled cohort analysis. SETTING Six Belgian hospitals. PATIENT(S) We identified 79 breast cancer patients who used the LNG IUS, and we selected a control group of 120 patients with no history of LNG IUS use and who were cl...

PURPOSE Studies have suggested an association between the use of regional paravertebral or epidural anesthesia and a reduction in tumor recurrence following breast cancer surgery. To examine this relationship we performed a retrospective case-control study of patients undergoing breast cancer surgery receiving regional, regional and general, or general anesthesia. METHODS A retrospective char...

BACKGROUND Soy and red clover isoflavones are controversial due to purported estrogenic activity and possible effects on breast cancer. We conducted a systematic review of soy and red clover for efficacy in improving menopausal symptoms in women with breast cancer, and for potential impact on risk of breast cancer incidence or recurrence. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Libr...

A growing body of evidence suggests that breast cancer recurrence risk is linked to lifestyle behaviors. This study examined correlations between breast cancer recurrence, risk reduction beliefs, and related behaviors among African American breast cancer survivors (AA BCSs). Study participants included 191 AA BCSs, mean age = 56.3 years, who completed a lifestyle assessment tool. Most responden...

ownload report on the development of a monitoring test for recurrent breast cancer, using metaboliteng methods. Using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and two-dimensional gas atography–mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) methods, we analyzed the metabolite profiles of 257 retrove serial serum samples from 56 previously diagnosed and surgically treated breast cancer patients. One ed si...

Downlo report on the development of a monitoring test for recurrent breast cancer, using metaboliteng methods. Using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and two-dimensional gas atography–mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) methods, we analyzed the metabolite profiles of 257 retrove serial serum samples from 56 previously diagnosed and surgically treated breast cancer patients. One ed six...

nloaded report on the development of a monitoring test for recurrent breast cancer, using metaboliteng methods. Using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and two-dimensional gas atography–mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) methods, we analyzed the metabolite profiles of 257 retrove serial serum samples from 56 previously diagnosed and surgically treated breast cancer patients. One ed si...

This paper introduces the Recurrence Surface Approximation, an inductive learning method based on linear programming that predicts recurrence times using censored training examples, that is, examples in which the available training output may be only a lower bound on the \right answer." This approach is augmented with a feature selection method that chooses an appropriate feature set within the...

BACKGROUND Whether intraoperative analgesics have an impact on postoperative cancer recurrence is unknown. Some investigations suggest that the opioids could favor relapse and that regional analgesia and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs could improve cancer prognosis. We retrospectively reviewed our series of breast cancer surgery patients. METHODS This retrospective study included 327 con...