PURPOSE The prediction of breast cancer recurrence is a crucial factor for successful treatment and follow-up planning. The principal objective of this study was to construct a novel prognostic model based on support vector machine (SVM) for the prediction of breast cancer recurrence within 5 years after breast cancer surgery in the Korean population, and to compare the predictive performance o...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: ca 15.3 is elevated in most patients with distant metastatic breast cancer who had prognostic information. the present study was performed to estimate predictive ability of ca 15.3 in assessment of symptomatic metastasis in patients with breast cancer. materials and methods: during five years, 159 primary breas...

background: despite developments in surgical treatment, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy protocols, tumor recurrence and metastasis are still major problems in breast cancer management. the aim of the present report was to review and compare the performance of pet/ct with some of the conventional imaging modalities in detection of breast cancer recurrence. methods: a literature search was pe...

many studies suggested that fractals could be brought in any structural anarchy, such as cancers, for diagnosis and prognosis evaluation by quantifying it and expressing it in terms of fractal geometry. in this study, we aimed to evaluate pathologic grades or breast carcinomas by fractal analysis. this cross-sectional study was performed on 60 women with breast ductal carcinoma. from all the pa...

desmoid tumor of breast is a rare benign, locally aggressive tumor with a high recurrence rate. it has been associated with scar from previous breast surgery or trauma. especially in breast cancer patients with previous operation history, it may simulate recurrent breast cancer clinically and radiologically. we presented multimodality imaging findings (ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic ...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among the women worldwide. the risk of local and distant recurrence is the highest during the first two years following the initial treatment. very late relapse (after 12 years) is uncommon in breast cancer survivors. methods: herein, we report the characteristics and outcomes of 6 such cases of breast can...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the effect that age at diagnosis has on fear of breast cancer recurrence and to identify the predictors of fear of recurrence using self-efficacy as a mediator. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Two university cancer centers and one cooperative group in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE 1,128 long-term survivors. METHODS Survivors were eligible if...

BACKGROUND Several gene sets for prediction of breast cancer survival have been derived from whole-genome mRNA expression profiles. Here, we develop a statistical framework to explore whether combination of the information from such sets may improve prediction of recurrence and breast cancer specific death in early-stage breast cancers. Microarray data from two clinically similar cohorts of bre...