Most breast cancer recurrences occur in the surgical scars or within other quadrants of the same breast. Isolated tumour recurrence occurring in the nipple after breast-conserving surgery and radiotherapy is extremely unusual. The reason for this is unknown, but is speculated to be due to involved surgical margins or an occult involvement of the nipple-areolar complex in a breast cancer of the ...

After adjuvant therapies, the 5-year survival of breast cancer patients with localized and locoregional breast cancer is estimated to be 98% and 83% respectively 1. Because many patients become longterm survivors, concerns about the mediumand long-term consequences of their treatment regimens have led to multiple quality-of-life (qol) studies that have demonstrated significant emotional, cognit...

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Breast-conserving surgery followed by whole-breast irradiation is the standard local therapy for early breast cancer. The international discussion of reduced importance of wider tumor-free resection margins than "tumor not touching ink" leads to the development of five principles in targeted oncoplastic breast surgery. IORT improves local recurrence risk and diminishes toxicity since there is l...

background: there has been increasing trend towards surgical treatment of metastases across different cancer types, including breast cancer, in the recent decade. single metastasis of breast cancer to sternum is a rare situation. we present a case of sternectomy for metastasis from breast cancer. case presentation: a 58-year-old woman with a history of modified radical mastectomy for breast can...

AIMS To obtain a better understanding of the changes in radiotherapeutic management of breast cancer patients in the more developed areas of China over the past decade. METHODS Four academic radiation therapy departments located on the Southeast Coast of China were selected for the study. The survey was conducted on female breast cancer patients who received radiotherapy in 1999 and 2006. The...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy during childhood increases long-term cancer risk, but the risk from radiation as a result of relatively higher dose diagnostic procedures remains less well known. This study, which evaluates breast cancer incidence in a cohort treated with "lower dose" chest radiotherapy over 50 years ago, can assist with estimating lifetime breast cancer risk in young children exposed t...