INTRODUCTION Breast cancer has a lifetime incidence of one in eight women. Over the past three decades there has been a move towards breast conservation and a focus on aesthetic outcomes while maintaining oncological safety. For some patients, mastectomy is the preferred option. There is growing interest in the potential use of nipple sparing mastectomy (NSM). However, oncological safety remain...

: Currently there is no clinical evidence of oncological risk associated with fat grafting (FG) although its safety has been questioned based on in vitro and in vivo research. This case-controlled study was designed to investigate the risk of relapse associated with fat grafting in women with a breast cancer history. METHODS: Of 328 women with previously treated malignant breast disease who u...

OBJECTIVE Scalp cooling (SC) is applied to reduce chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA). The aim of this study was to investigate patients' familiarity and opinions and oncological professionals' attitude and knowledge about SC in the Netherlands. METHODS Ex breast cancer patients, nurses and medical oncologists (MDs) from SC and non-SC hospitals filled out questionnaires. RESULTS The majorit...

Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) are rapidly becoming the gold standard cell source for tissue engineering strategies and hold great potential for novel breast reconstruction strategies. However, their use in patients with breast cancer is controversial and their oncological safety, particularly in relation to local disease recurrence, has been questioned. In vitro, in vivo, and clinical stud...

But these experiments [2] will not give us any information about the dependence or independence of the two factors, namely study habit and home environment. In such cases, we resort to Factorial ANOVA which not only helps us to study the effect of two or more factors but also gives information about their dependence or independence in the same experiment. There are many types of factorial desig...