During breast radiotherapy treatment, the contralateral breast receives radiation doses to the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused mainly from incident electron contamination and low energy photon scatter radiation. Measurements have shown that for a typical hybrid tangential treatment, these dose levels can be up to 17% of maximum applied prescription dose if no shielding is used during the tr...

The incidence of a second primary breast cancer in the contralateral breast among 56,237 women with a first primary breast cancer diagnosed between the years 1943-80 in Denmark was established. The relative risk (RR) for a breast cancer patient to get yet another breast cancer was studied, taking account of age, stage and treatment of the first primary breast cancer. Based on 345,573 women year...

Background Autologous breast reconstruction can be performed for breasts with ptosis to a certain extent, but if patients desire to correct ptosis, mastopexy of the contralateral breast is indicated. However, accurate prediction of post-mastopexy breast shape is difficult to make, and symmetrical breast reconstruction requires certain experience. We have previously reported the use of three-dim...

The incidence of breast cancer in Japan has been gradually increasing (1, 2). Although the age at which women are most susceptible to breast cancer is lower than that for other cancers (3), the 5-year posttreatment survival rate in breast cancer is favorable in comparison to that in many other cancers. Thus, the prognosis of patients with breast cancer is relatively good. Therefore, patients’ p...

Tamoxifen has been administered to thousands of women during the last 30 years. Initially, it was used for treatment of metastatic breast cancer, next for adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, and most recently for reduction in the incidence of breast cancer in high-risk women. Tamoxifen is one of the first molecularly targeted therapies to be successful in improving survival in a large number o...

Temporal Trends in and Factors Associated With Contralateral ProphylacticMastectomy AmongUSMenWith Breast Cancer Previous studies have reportedmarked increases in the rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) among US womenwho receivedadiagnosis of unilateral invasivebreastcancer, and this increase isparticularlyevidentamongyounger women.1 Rates of CPM amongwomen vary depending on th...

Ipsilateral axillary lymphadenopathy related to COVID-19 vaccine was reported as a side effect and started raise diagnostic dilemmas especially in oncology patients. Breast cancer patients are particularly prone this benign pitfall that may result unfortunate management changing or unnecessary biopsy, both causing additional emotional stress for the We present three cases with one bilateral sup...

BACKGROUND Information about breast cancer treatment and prevention in African American women is scant, and recommendations for therapy from clinical trials for breast cancer are based primarily on data obtained from white women. METHODS We compared the effects of tamoxifen on risk of contralateral breast cancer and thromboembolic events in African American women and white women with a histor...

PURPOSE Higher background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) could be used for stratification of MRI screening programs since it might be related to a higher breast cancer risk. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to correlate BPE to patient and tumor characteristics in women with unilateral MRI-screen detected breast cancer who participated in an intermediate and high risk screening program. As...