Breast cancer is an important health problem that especially affects women. In breast where surgical procedures are the primary treatment modality, breast-conserving surgery with radiotherapy becoming more popular than mastectomy. Re-excision may be necessary in cases of recurrence or positive margins. Damage to cavity formed due scar formation old operation lodge make dissection difficult. Fai...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aim of this study was to analyze feasibility of day surgery in breast cancer patients with breast conserving surgery and sentinel node biopsy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was a randomized controlled trial comparing day surgery with one night hospital stay in breast cancer patients with breast conserving surgery and sentinel node biopsy. A total of 40 patients with ⩽...

There are currently several treatment options available to women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. These treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. Each method of treatment has been proven to benefit most patients in some way. When treatment options are combined the chances of eliminating the cancer entirely are greatly increased. Surgery paired ...

Conservative breast cancer surgery requires an exact knowledge on the impact that local resection may have on the cosmetic result, and for this reason, the characteristics of each breast region must be taken into account. The segmentation theory helps to predict the consequences of local resection in each breast segment and, at the same time, optimise the choice of the best procedure for their ...

BACKGROUND The optimal sequence of radiotherapy (RT) and hormone therapy using aromatase inhibitors (AI) in patients with breast cancer treated with breast-conserving surgery is unclear. Several short-term analyses have shown that there are no differences in breast cancer outcomes according to the treatment sequence. However, long-term outcomes have not been reported. PATIENTS AND METHODS We ...

Seroma formation after axillary dissection is a common problem in breast cancer surgery. We report the case of a 68-year-old female with breast cancer who underwent a wide local excision and axillary clearance due to stage III breast cancer. Patient received post-operative whole breast irradiation therapy and developed a painful, infected seroma one month after surgery. This was treated with an...

The common sites of metastasis of breast cancer are bone, lung, and liver, but gastrointestinal metastasis from breast cancer is rare. We experienced a case of solitary ileal metastasis from breast cancer. A 45-years-old woman presented with melena for several weeks. She showed no other abdominal symptoms. Colonoscopy findings showed an ulcerative mucosal lesion in the terminal ileum, and biops...

BACKGROUND Randomized trials of radiotherapy and surgery for early breast cancer may have been too small to detect differences in long-term survival and recurrence reliably. We therefore performed a systematic overview (meta-analysis) of the results of such trials. METHODS Information was sought on each subject from investigators who conducted trials that began before 1985 and that compared l...