introduction the first medical intervention for many breast cancer patients is breast conserving surgery (bcs) and/or modified radical mastectomy (mrm). most of these patients undergo radiation therapy, following surgery. the most common side-effect of breast radiotherapy is skin damage. in the present study, the severity of acute skin changes and the underlying causes were investigated in pati...

AIM To confirm that oncoplastic approach to cancer is a fundamental part of modern breast conserving surgery also in a suburban hospital. MATERIAL OF STUDY The Authors used oncoplastic techniques in 60 cases including 45 first level and 15 second level procedures: they show some cases of conservative surgery and breast reshaping with upper, medial and lower pedicle. DISCUSSION Screening pro...

AIM Lipofilling is a part of the clinical practice for breast reshaping in patients who underwent surgery for breast cancer. A strong debate in the Literature is open about a higher risk of cancer relapse caused by growth factors produced by adipocyte stem cells after their engraftment in the recipient tissue. Nowadays there is no agreement over the use of autologous fat tissue for the correcti...

Conservative surgery is considered the procedure of choice for women who are affected by early stage tumours. The local recurrence of cancer as a consequence of breast tissue conservation is a growing concern. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of women who had local recurrences of breast cancer after conservative surgery and to examine the associations betw...

BACKGROUND The controversy between breast conserving surgery and simple mastectomy for phyllodes tumours of the breast remains because of the unpredictable nature of the disease. Although some benign tumours may show an unusually aggressive behaviour, modified radical surgery for phyllodes tumours offers no survival advantage, and recently more conservative surgical approaches have been deploye...

Background: The aim of conservative surgery for treatment of breast cancer is obtaining satisfactory aesthetic results. Segment-based surgery, which must be followed by radiotherapy (RT), is considered the treatment of choice for most breast cancer patients. Single-dose intraoperative radiation in the tumor bed (IORT) is a promising radiation technique that is more rapid than conventional RT an...

Conservative breast cancer surgery requires an exact knowledge on the impact that local resection may have on the cosmetic result, and for this reason, the characteristics of each breast region must be taken into account. The segmentation theory helps to predict the consequences of local resection in each breast segment and, at the same time, optimise the choice of the best procedure for their ...

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...

INTRODUCTION Radiation-induced nonmelanoma skin cancer was first reported seven years after the discovery of X-rays, but has received relatively little consideration in the literature. Specifically, nonmelanoma skin cancer after conservative surgery and radiation for early stage breast cancer has not been well studied. We report the case of a woman who developed squamous cell carcinoma of the n...