With the advent of breast-conserving therapy (BCT), radiation therapy is utilized in noninvasive and early-stage breast cancer as well as locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer. With ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and early-stage breast cancer, radiation therapy is delivered following ...
BREAST CANCER INDUCED BY RADIATIONBREAST CANCER INDUCED BY RADIATIONSince Roentgen's discovery of the X-ray in 1895, scientists and society in general have been continuously impressed and surprised by its properties. Impressiveness reflects mainly the many applications that have been devised for X-ray...
Breast cancer is a largely PREVENTABLE disease, and we reach that good news because of our finding that a large share of recent and current breast cancer in the United States is CERTAINLY due to past medical irradiation of the breasts with x-rays at all ages, including infancy and childhood....
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women—more than a million cases are diagnosed each year worldwide. When it's confined to the breast, most women get surgery to remove the lump, followed by several weeks of radiation to kill any lingering cancer cells and sometimes hormone or chem...
The purpose of this study was to determine the psychosocial issues faced by post lumpectomy women with early stage breast cancer undergoing radical radiation to the affected breast. Twenty-five women in their second to fifth week of treatment were given the survey to determine these issue...
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Objective To study the role the left ventricle (LV) as a novel organ at risk (OAR) in postoperative intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for left-sided breast cancer patients who received breast conserved surgery (BCS) to protect the heart from unnecessary radiation.MethodsThe archived computed...
Proven Causes of Breast Cancer Excerpts continued frompart 1. The "Master Table" referred to in the below extracts can be seen at www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/chp39.html#MasterTblA-J . What Is the "Story" of A, B, and C?
In this paper I am presenting my experiences relative to the effect of radiation used alone or with surgery in cancer of the breast over a twelve year period from and including the years 1924 and 1935. There were 857 cases in all categories; of these, 803 have been traced鈥攁 follow-up...
CHICAGO, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The presence of cancer cells in the blood of patients with early-stage breast cancer may be predictive of a benefit from radiotherapy delivered after surgery, according to a study posted on the website of Northwestern University (NU). ...