This is the second of two articles reprinted with permission from: Practice guideline for breast conservation therapy in the management of invasive breast carcinoma. In: Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards. Reston, VA: American College of Radiology;2006:443-468. In this reprinting "G" in Section IV is available in the Online version only. For Section VI please refer to the first publica...

OBJECTIVE The authors determined whether microscopically positive surgical margins are detrimental to the outcome of early stage breast cancer patients treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA The optimal extent of breast surgery required for patients treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy has not been established. To achieve breast pre...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ipsilateral breast tumor relapse (IBTR) occurs in approximately 8-20% of women 10 years after breast conservation therapy (BCT). The aim of this study is to classify ipsilateral breast tumor relapses in patients treated with conservative surgery and radiation therapy as true recurrences or new primary and to show the clinical significance of classification into these two ...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the various aspects of illness perceptions about breast cancer in affected patients. methods: a cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with breast cancer in their chemotherapy period within 14 months. the revised illness perception questionnaire (revised ipq) was used to assess the disease representations of breast cancer. the d...

Introduction: The proton beam produced in particle accelerators has an appropriate therapeutic potential. In this research, proton therapy of breast cancer is simulated using the MCNPX code in a MIRD phantom, also the contribution of scattered neutron dose during the proton therapy were calculated for the Heart, Lung and Liver.   Materials and Methods: For si...

OBJECTIVE To report long-term health outcomes and mortality after oophorectomy or ovarian conservation. METHODS We conducted a prospective, observational study of 29,380 women participants of the Nurses' Health Study who had a hysterectomy for benign disease; 16,345 (55.6%) had hysterectomy with bilateral oophorectomy, and 13,035 (44.4%) had hysterectomy with ovarian conservation. We evaluate...

OBJECTIVE It has been proposed that young women should not be treated by breast conservation treatment because of a higher risk of local recurrences and worse survival. We therefore examined whether breast conservation treatment in young Chinese women yielded inferior clinical outcomes compared to modified radical mastectomy. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Clinical oncology department ...