Purpose: In most of the developing counties postmenopausal breast cancer cases are offered a radical form of surgery relying on their unawareness about body image. We evaluate the effect of breast cancer surgical choice; Conservative Breast Therapy (BCT) or Modified Radical Mastectomy (MRM); on body image in Egyptian postmenopausal cases. Patients and Methods: A prospective randomized trial of ...

The breast-conserving treatment, in essence, implies not only providing breast-conserving surgery (BCS), but also adjuvant radiation therapy, that significantly reduces the risk of disease loco-regional and distant recurrence and is considered as an integral part of breast cancer conservative treatment [1,2]. Traditionally, appearance of more than one malignant tumor, in one or several breast q...

Brachytherapy may play a role as boost irradiation to the tumour bed after external beam irradiation of the whole breast or may be used in selected cases as a sole radiation modality after conservative surgery. For tumours not amenable to primary conservative surgery, treated with initial systemic treatment and / or external beam irradiation, a conservative approach including brachytherapy boos...

BACKGROUND Intravenous bisphosphonates have been used in metastatic breast cancer patients to reduce pathologic bone fracture and bone pain. However, necrosis of the jaw has been reported in those who received intravenous bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) is caused by dental extraction, dental implant surgery, and denture wearing; however, it occurs sponta...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study is to emphasize the importance of knowing the predisposing factors of the occurrence of homolateral upper limb lymphedema after breast cancer surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 1104 patients with breast cancer, who were hospitalized in the IIIrd Surgical Clinic, lasi, between 2000 and 2010, for surgical treatment followed by oncological adjuvant ...

Conservative breast cancer surgery is facing a new problem: the potential tumour involvement of resection margins. This eventuality has been closely and negatively associated with disease-free survival. Various factors may influence the likelihood of margins being affected, mostly related to the characteristics of the tumour, patient or surgical technique. In the last decade, many studies have ...

Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is associated with an increased risk of developing secondary malignancies, particularly lymphomas. However, the diagnosis prior to CTCL very rare. Herein we present cases two patients diagnosed a CTCL. The first patient was female in her late 50s history diffuse large B-cell (DLBL) breast status post chemo plus radiation who developed poikilodermatous scaly patc...

[Purpose] This study examined the effects of High Intensity Laser Therapy on pain and function of patients with chronic back pain. [Subjects and Methods] This study evenly divided a total of 20 patients with chronic back pain into a conservative physical therapy group that received conservative physical therapy, and a high intensity laser therapy group that received High Intensity Laser Therapy...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy on the pain and function of patients with degenerative knee arthritis. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty patients with degenerative knee arthritis were divided into a conservative physical therapy group (n=10) and an extracorporeal shock wave therapy group (n=10). Both groups received general conser...

OF THE PhD THESIS ENTITLED: CONSERVATIVE SURGICAL TREATMENT IN BREAST CANCER SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR: PROF. UNIV. DAN MOGOS