There were no significant differences between the stereotactic and ultrasound-guided groups with regard to patient age, body mass index, menopausal status, history of parity, hormone replacement therapy, breast parenchymal pattern (according to Wolfe's classification), family history of breast cancer, m...
Insurers have commonly used the amount of breast tissue to be removed as a criterion for evaluating the medical necessity of breast reduction surgery. In a survey of managed care policies regarding breast reduction surgery, Krieger and colleagues reported (2001) found that most of the respondents s...
Telephone surveys conducted at baseline and 1 year assessed body mass index (BMI), dietary consumption, physical activity, and other psychosocial/behavioral indices. Clinical assessments were conducted on a 23% subsample; information was used to validate self-reports. RESULTS: Five hund...
(C) Ultrasound showed a 3.2 cm mass (arrows) and abnormal axillary nodes (not shown). Core biopsy confirmed invasive ductal carcinoma. This is an interval cancer. Mortality reduction is significantly lower in women with dense breasts. Using data from the Nijmegen (Dutch) screening program, ...
When tumor cells go through apoptosis, they release a “find me” signal to recruit phagocytes for phagocytosis, thus triggering a cascade of immune responses [10]. We sought to determine whether our nanosecond pulsed tumor ablation system could also trigger an immune response. Firstly, we tested...
A 44-year-old female patient was seen last week by her internist for a left breast mass. The patient was referred to an oncologist who ordered an MRI, which revealed intraductal carcinoma in situ left breast. Assign the correct ICD-10-CM codes to be submi Can males develop breast cancer...
A 44-year-old female patient was seen last week by her internist for a left breast mass. The patient was referred to an oncologist who ordered an MRI, which revealed intraductal carcinoma in situ left breast. Assign the correct ICD-10-CM codes to be submi...
Sorlie T, Perou CM, Fan C et al (2006) Gene expression profiles do not consistently predict the clinical treatment response in locally advanced breast cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 5:2914-2918Sorlie T, Perou CM, Fan C, Geisler S, Aas T, Nobel A, Anker G, Akslen LA, Botstein D, Borresen-...
This study recruited patients who had a primary diagnostic code for breast cancer (ICD-9-CM 174–174.9) and a history of breast cancer surgery performed at one of three medical centers in southern Taiwan between June 2007 and June 2010. Additional inclusion criteria were (1) history of no ...