background: mammary paget’s disease is an uncommon form of primary breast cancer. the aim of this study is to assess our institution’s experience in its management. methods: we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 53 female patients with histologically confirmed paget’s disease, treated at the salah azaïz institute between 2001 and 2010. results: there were palpable masses in 71.7% o...

Software breast phantoms offer greater flexibility in generating synthetic breast images compared to physical phantoms. The realism of such generated synthetic images depends on the method for simulating the three-dimensional breast anatomical structures. We present here a novel algorithm for computer simulation of breast anatomy. The algorithm simulates the skin, regions of predominantly adipo...

Objectives. Clinical estimation of malignant breast tumor size is critical for preoperative planning and is crucial for following up the tumor's response to the therapy in case she receives a neoadjuvant chemotharapy. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) accompanies about 25.4% of detected invasive breast cancers. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the presence of DCIS on the accurac...

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Radiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of breast cancer and essential part of the standard treatment after breast-conserving surgery, routinely done to eliminate the microscopic residual cancer. The heart and lungs are one of the most important organs at risk of breast cancer radiotherapy that th...

BACKGROUND Tumor size has long been recognized as the strongest predictor of the outcome of patients with invasive breast carcinoma, although it has not been settled whether the correlation between tumor size and the chance of death is independent of the method of detection, nor is it clear how tumor size at the time of treatment may be translated into a specific expectation of survival. In thi...

The breast cancer treatment is based nowadays on new surgical options: breast-conserving surgery, which applies at least for the first and second stage cancer, with radical intention. We have been practicing breast-conserving surgery for the last 16 years and we have performed 303 breast conserving operations from a total of 673. We recorded 12 local recurrences (3,96%) and 2 deaths due to canc...

For some women the possibility of breast augmentation means a relief from suffering. This is true of reconstructive surgery after mastectomy or after childbirth. In some cases implants may help women who suffer mentally from being “flat-chested”. However, the majority of recent breast augmentation surgery can not be said to fall under these categories for they mostly serve the purpose of boosti...

The current approach to breast reconstruction remains largely subjective and is based on physical examination and visual-estimates of breast size. Thus, the overall success of breast reconstruction is limited by the inability of plastic surgeons to objectively assess breast volume and shape, which may result in suboptimal outcomes. A potential solution to this obstacle may be three-dimensional ...