BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ipsilateral breast tumor relapse (IBTR) occurs in approximately 8-20% of women 10 years after breast conservation therapy (BCT). The aim of this study is to classify ipsilateral breast tumor relapses in patients treated with conservative surgery and radiation therapy as true recurrences or new primary and to show the clinical significance of classification into these two ...

BACKGROUND Interest in the use of preoperative systemic treatment in the management of breast cancer has increased because such neoadjuvant therapy appears to reduce the extent of local surgery required. We compared the clinical end points of patients with breast cancer treated preoperatively with systemic therapy (neoadjuvant therapy) and of those treated postoperatively with the same regimen ...

Déjà vu All Over Again? Although a substantial number of women will suffer and die from breast cancer during the upcoming years, we clearly have made stepwise progress in treating patients with this cancer over the last 3 decades. Each of these steps of progress has led to what are glibly designated “paradigm shifts.” Perhaps the most hotly debated of these paradigms is the local vs systemic na...

Introduction: Radiation therapy following breast conserving surgery is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiation oncology department. A tangential parallel-opposed pair is almost always the technique of choice for this purpose. This technique is often performed based on 3D treatment planning. The aim of this study was to compare 3D treatment planning for two different energie...

Systemic neo-adjuvant therapy plays a primary role in the management of locally advanced breast cancer. Without having any negative effect in overall survival, induction chemotherapy potentially assures a surgery approach in unresectable disease or a conservative treatment in technically resectable disease and acts on a well-vascularized tumor bed, without the modifications induced by surgery. ...

objective: this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on decreasing depression in women with breast cancer. a single-case design was employed in this research.  methods: an ab form of single-subject experimental design was used in this study with 3 baselines (every 10 days) before intervention stage and two measurements during intervention stage and one follow-up (af...

BACKGROUND Angiosarcomas are highly aggressive and malignant blood vessel tumors. Rarely, angiosarcomas develop in the breast following conservative therapy, namely radiotherapy. CASE REPORT A 70-year-old female patient presented with dark purple discoloration of the skin of the right breast. 6 years earlier, the patient had undergone conservative surgery for invasive ductal carcinoma of the ...

Conservative breast carcinoma therapy recommended at present only with postoperative irradiation side effects entailed: fibroses, sensitivity disturbances, skin alterations, edema, restrictions of movement Hivamat, due to improved flow equilibrium, largely prevents local edemas and pain special form of manual lymph drainage can be used postoperatively at once own results good Introduction

Mastitis is inflammation of breast tissue that may or may not originate from an infection. Two different forms of mastitis have been described, lactational and non-lactational. Lactational mastitis is the most common type and generally conservative therapy that includes milk removal and physical therapy provides symptomatic relief, but antibiotic therapy is also needed. Common types of non-lact...