Background Tumor characteristics and patterns of recurrence in luminal A, luminal B, Her2 pos and triple negative breast cancer (bc) patients (pts) 70 years and older are still an area of uncertainty. In this investigation clinical pathological characteristics, disease recurrence and death were ...
Women with breast cancer have different chances of surviving their disease, depending on where they live. Variations in survival may stem from unequal access to prompt diagnosis, treatment and care. Implementation of the right to health may help remedy s
Focus on breast cancer up until now has almost entirely been on top of the situation in high-income countries. With growth and ageing of the world's population, notable increases in life expectancy in many countries and the sharp tendency towards adoption of a westernised lifestyle with lower...
Flow chart of patients in this study. Solid arrows indicate patient selection. Dashed arrows indicate patient exclusion. Full size image Out of 1152 breast cancer cases with established intrinsic subtype, 523 (45.4%) were treated In St Gallen, 243 (21.1%) Over St Gallen and 386 (33.5) Under...
ContextReasons for the shorter survival of black breast cancer patients compared with their white counterparts are not completely understood.ObjectiveTo
Music therapy has been widely used as a complementary therapy for cancer patients. It has been shown that music therapy had beneficial effects on anxiety, depression, pain management, fatigue and quality of life of cancer patients [10]. However, not all types of music therapy are equally effect...
It was all very sad. As soon as an orthopedic took a look at it, he was certain surgery was in my future. But, oh wait, there’s always that curious part on my medical chart, you know the one that says I have terminal cancer. They would really need to xray, MRI, test and rete...
3D surface reconstruction Nonrigid registration Breast cancer treatment Aesthetic evaluation Depth camera 1. Introduction Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer site among women worldwide (Jemal, Bray, Center, Ferlay, Ward, Forman, 2011, Fitzmaurice, Dicker, Pain, Hamavid, Moradi-Lakeh...
Considerable controversy exists regarding the safety of elective exogenous hormonal exposure among breast cancer survivors and women at high risk of developing the disease (referred to herein as 'previvors'). We performed a qualitative analysis focused on four areas of potential exogenous exposure to ...
1 An in vivo genetic screen identifies OTUD1 as potent suppressor of breast cancer metastasis. a, b Flow chart and figures of the in vivo screen identifying DUBs that inhibit breast cancer metastasis. Low metastatic MDA-MB-231-Luciferase/GFP breast cancer cells were infected with lentiviruses ...