Their recurrence rate, she said, is comparable to reported rates of disease recurrence after standard mastectomy. Furthermore, the procedure has several advantages over standard mastectomy. "Often, a ...

The risk of isolated locoregional recurrence after initial treatment was 5.6% among young women diagnosed with breast cancer. This was lower than a previously reported 10-year rate of 8% among all ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Postmastectomy chest-wall irradiation (CWI) for intermediate-risk breast cancer had no impact on long-term survival, results of a large British study showed. After a median follow-up of ...

The benefit of regional nodal irradiation in the treatment of breast cancer is well established for patients with pathologically positive axillary nodes, but whether it is also beneficial for patients ...

The patient is a 58-year-old woman with stage 2a breast carcinoma. Initial wide excision and sampling of axillary nodes revealed one positive node, but the margins were not clear. She is now finishing ...

The role of postmastectomy chest-wall irradiation in patients with breast cancer classified as pN1 (with involvement of one to three axillary nodes) or pN0 (pathologically node negative) with ...

June 10, 2010 — Surgery to remove solid tumors can trigger metastatic spread. A groundbreaking analysis by Patrice Forget, MD, and colleagues from the Université catholique de Louvain, in ...

Novartis Canada applauds Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC) for its positive draft recommendation to reimburse Kisqali® ...

To evaluate the clinical benefit of extended endocrine therapy after 5 years of adjuvant treatment with LHRHa in premenopausal women with node-positive, HR-positive early breast cancer.

A new study suggests that many women with early-stage breast cancer may not need radiation after a mastectomy, thanks to advances in modern cancer treatment. The international clinical trial followed ...