Breast conserving therapy (BCT) including postoperative irradiation of the remaining breast tissue is generally accepted as the best treatment for the majority of patients with early-stage breast cancer. The question is whether there is a necessity for irradiating all patients. Between 2001 and 2005, 749 women aged 55-75 years with infiltrating breast carcinoma were randomly assigned to breast ...

With the implementation of early screening more women are diagnosed with early stage breast cancer; the curative therapy remains however an important challenge. For years, radical mastectomy was the only treatment option for breast cancer. The concept of conservative treatment was initially developed in Europe during the years 1960-1970. It consisted of breast conserving surgery followed by rad...

breast conservation surgery combined with radiation therapy is now an accepted option for the treatment of early breast cancer. so we decided to evaluate the results of such treatment in our first group of patients treated by this method. from 1992 to 1996 , one hundred patients with stage i and ii breast cancer treated with breast conservative surgery (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy). were irrad...

Introduction: COVID-19 implied that a great number of infected individuals were hospitalized and possibly admitted to intensive care units. Cancer centers have rapidly changed models by delaying non-urgent surgeries. Breast surgeries delayed for early breast cancer patients forcing clinicians potentially alter treatment recommendations neo-adjuvant chemotherapy until appropriate conditions esta...

AIM Breast carcinoma occurring in routine reduction mammaplasty is rare. MATERIAL OF STUDY In our Breast Unit each patient eligible for any breast surgery is routinely evaluated by preoperative breast imaging. We reported the clinical case of a woman with an infiltrating lobular breast cancer detected during surgical reduction mammaplasty despite a negative preoperative bilateral mammography....