PURPOSE Since 1980, electron arc irradiation of the postmastectomy chest wall has been the preferred radiotherapy technique at the University of Utah for patients with advanced breast cancer. We report the results of this technique in 156 consecutive Stage IIA-IIIB patients treated from 1980 to 1998. METHODS CT treatment planning was used in all patients to identify chest wall thickness and i...

The health-related quality of life questionnaire for lymphedema of the upper limb (ULL27) was translated into Dutch according to international guidelines and validated. Eighty-four patients with lymphedema that occurred after axillary surgery for breast cancer and subsequent radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or hormonal therapy, completed the translated version of the ULL27 and the RAND36. Severity o...

BACKGROUND Detailed knowledge of every possible manifestation of Internal Carotid Artery (ICA) disease is important. For improving detection and a timely adoption of secondary prevention procedures or treatments. Transient oculomotor nerve palsies have been described associated with stenosis or occlusion of the ICA. CASE PRESENTATION We described a patient that develop a sequential combinatio...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy (RT) improves overall survival (OS) of breast cancer patients after breast conserving surgery and after mastectomy in patients with involved lymph nodes (LN). The contribution of RT to the regional LN to this survival benefit was poorly understood. Recently, the results of three large randomized trials addressing this question have become available. MATERIAL AND METHOD...

Proton beam radiotherapy (PBR) has gained acceptance for the treatment of breast cancer because of unique beam characteristics that allow superior dose distributions with optimal dose to the target and limited collateral damage to adjacent normal tissue, especially to the heart and lungs. To determine the compatibility of breast tissue expanders (TEs) with PBR, we evaluated the structural and d...