Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. It is known as asymptomatic cancer that presents no noticeable symptoms in its early stage. Thus, regular mammography screening helps detect breast cancer early before it spreads to nearby normal tissues or to other organs. Hence, an ...
During the three years of this study, a total of 300 women (cases with breast cancer and controls with a normal mammogram) aged 65 and older will be recruited from oncology and radiology offices to participate in a study consisting of one clinic visit. 展开 关键词:...
For the clinical staging of breast cancer, your cancer specialist (oncologist) may use one or more of the following imaging tools:3 Mammogram: This is an X-ray procedure specific to the breast. Breast ultrasound: This uses a non-invasive procedure that can visualize and measure a tumor using...
CMF + radiotherapy in the primary treatment of operable breast cancer: preliminary results of a phase II pilot study Background and Objectives: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been investigated in several studies about their role in primary (neoadjuvant) treatment befo... R Bellantone,CP Lombardi...
One study1 of women living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and 2 studies12,13 of women living in Hawaii reported that Hawaiian and Filipino women are more likely to be diagnosed as having advanced stages of breast cancer and to have poorer survival rates after diagnosis compared ...
One- and three-year net survival for unstaged women was lowest in Denmark and the UK. In all six countries, women aged 70–99 years generally had lower overall and stage-specific survival at both 1 and 3 years than women aged 50–69 years. This difference was widest in the UK. Women ...
Findings from numerous studies have demonstrated the prognostic value of measuring Ki-67 in breast cancers.17 In one of the largest retrospective studies, in which investigators analyzed data from a regional population-based cancer registry (N = 3568), the Ki-67 index was a prognostic factor for...
Even today, investigators continue to search for a subset of breast cancer patients who will have better disease control with radical surgery. BCT stands as not only the best-studied example of organ-conserving therapy but one of the most rigorously tested therapies in all of medicine. Breast-...
“There are just so many things going on that are really exciting right now in breast cancer,” Rugo said. “Miami Breast is great because it includes the new data in surgery, in radiation oncology, and in medical oncology, and both early-stage and metastatic disease.” One of the hallmar...
Factors associated with re-excision in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast conservation therapy. One of the risks of breast conservation surgery is local recurrence, which predominantly occurs as a result of inadequate surgical margins. The purpose of this study was to ...