BACKGROUND Surgery is an essential element of breast cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to describe the progress and current practice in oncological breast surgery in Catalonia and Andalusia. MATERIAL AND METHOD An observational study was conducted, collecting data from the Minimum Basic Data Set at Hospital Discharge. RESULTS A total of 37,537 women from Catalonia and 24,186 from ...

UNLABELLED Selection of the treatment method in breast cancer patients and its consequences may affect their quality of life through somatic, psychical, and social factors. The aim of the study was early evaluation of the quality of life of women after mastectomy vs. breast conserving surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 100 women aged 31 to 79 years (mean: 57) who underwent surge...

Objectives To examine whether rate of reoperation after breast conserving surgery is associated with patients’ characteristics and investigate whether reoperation rates vary among English NHS trusts. Design Cohort study using patient level data from hospital episode statistics. Setting English NHS trusts. Participants Adult women who had breast conserving surgery between 1 April 2005 and 31 Mar...

background: postoperative breast abnormalities after breast conserving surgery or modified radical mastectomy are frequently overlooked and inaccurately assessed or reported using multidetector computed tomography (mdct). these inaccurate results may have legal ramifications for the clinicians, cause patients avoidable anxiety, and lead to additional unnecessary diagnostic follow-up testing and...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether rate of reoperation after breast conserving surgery is associated with patients' characteristics and investigate whether reoperation rates vary among English NHS trusts. DESIGN Cohort study using patient level data from hospital episode statistics. SETTING English NHS trusts. PARTICIPANTS Adult women who had breast conserving surgery between 1 April 2005 and ...

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common among women in world. Differences treatment of breast may be observed by age, disease stage, place residence and comorbid conditions. Aim: The aim study was to analyse differences use breast-conserving surgery Świętokrzyskie Province. Material methods: included 483 female residents Province who were diagnosed with invasive 2013. Following indicator...

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in Western populations, affecting 12.5% of women, with 1.38 million patients per year. Breast-conserving surgery followed by postoperative radiotherapy replaced the radical and modified-radical procedures of Halsted and Patey as the standard of care for early-stage breast cancer once the overall and disease-free survival rates of breast-conserving ...

Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the dose distribution and coverage of level Ⅰ-Ⅱ axillary lymph nodes during whole breast tangential field radiotherapy (RT) after breast-conserving surgery in patients with breast cancer. Materials and Methods: The level Ⅰ-Ⅱ axillary lymph node volumes were retrospectively contoured by a single radiation oncologist based on computed tomography...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of second breast-conserving surgery with reirradiation using perioperative high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for the treatment of local recurrence developing after previous breast-conserving therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 1999 and 2007, twelve patients with isolated local recurrence initially treated for breast carcinoma with the...

Background: Breast conserving surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy has become the standard operation for early breast cancer. This operation has been performed under local anesthesia for patients that would like short-term admission or for those not indicated for general anesthesia due to complications. This report presents the outcomes of breast conserving surgery and sentinel lymph node bio...