Recently added articles from Advances in Breast Cancer:
Oncoplastic surgery: extending the limits of breast conservation.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2008; Gui, Gerald ... The majority of patients presenting with early breast cancer are suitable for breast conservation. Patient expectation of the highest levels of aesthetic outcome can now be met by the oncoplastic skills of specialist breast surgeons. The time for repair of the volume deficit created by ...
Volume replacement and displacement techniques in oncoplastic surgery.
Mar 01, 2008; Benson, John R. ... Introduction Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is now an established surgical modality and is the preferred standard of care for management of women with early-stage breast cancer. Longer-term follow-up data from several prospective randomised controlled trials and limited ...
Volume displacement techniques and therapeutic mammoplasty: the Nottingham experience.
Mar 01, 2008; Macmillan, R. Douglas ... Introduction Oncoplastic surgery aims to provide optimum effectiveness of surgical treatment for breast cancer with minimum effect on quality of life. It can offer improved aesthetic results from surgery and even enhance body image. Women who undergo ...
Quality of life after breast-conserving surgery.
Mar 01, 2008; Potter, Shelley ... Introduction In early-stage breast cancer, the equivalence of mastectomy and breast-conserving surgery (BCS) with radiotherapy with respect to disease-free and overall survival is well established [1-3]. Therefore differences in quality of life (QoL) become of paramount ...
30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.(Conference Report)
Mar 01, 2008; Parton, Marina ... Introduction Over 8000 healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of breast cancer attended the international San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) from 13-16 December 2007. At the opening address, Kent Osbourne outlined the future direction of breast cancer care ...
Reversal of the estrogen receptor--negative phenotype in breast cancer and restoration of antiestrogen response.
Mar 01, 2008; Barrett-Lee, Peter ... Reversal of the estrogen receptor--negative phenotype in breast cancer and restoration of antiestrogen response Bayliss J, Hilger A, Vishnu P et al. Clinical Cancer Research, 2007, 13, 7029-7036 One of the difficulties of breast cancer treatment at present ...
FoxA1 as a lineage-specific oncogene in luminal type breast cancer.
Mar 01, 2008; Barrett-Lee, Peter ... FoxA1 as a lineage-specific oncogene in luminal type breast cancer Yamaguchi N, Ito E, Azuma S et al. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2008, 365, 711-717 In human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-overexpressing clinical breast ...
Breast MRI in nonpalpable breast lesions: a randomized trial with diagnostic and therapeutic outcome--MONET-study.(Magnetic resonance imaging)
Mar 01, 2008; Murray, Nick ... Breast MRI in nonpalpable breast lesions: a randomized trial with diagnostic and therapeutic outcome--MONET-study Peters N, Borel Rinkes I, Mali W et al. Trials, 2007, 8, 40 Is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) an innovative approach to breast imaging that ...
How do patients want to learn of results of clinical trials? A survey of 1431 breast cancer patients.(Survey)
Mar 01, 2008; Murray, Nick ... How do patients want to learn of results of clinical trials? A survey of 1431 breast cancer patients Johnson L, Barrett-Lee P, Ellis P and Bliss JM; on behalf of the TACT Trial Management Group British Journal of Cancer, 2008, 98, 34-38 This excellent ...
Factors associated with negative margins of lumpectomy specimen: potential use in selecting patients for intraoperative radiotherapy.
Mar 01, 2008; Gui, Gerald ... Factors associated with negative margins of lumpectomy specimen: potential use in selecting patients for intraoperative radiotherapy Schiller DE, Le LW, Cho BCJ et al. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2007, DOI: 10.1245/s10434-007-9711-2 This study is a ...
The MSKCC nomogram for prediction the likelihood of non-sentinel node involvement in a German breast cancer population.(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center )
Mar 01, 2008; Gui, Gerald ... The MSKCC nomogram for prediction the likelihood of non-sentinel node involvement in a German breast cancer population Klar M, Jochmann A, Foeldi M et al. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2007, DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9884-1 Although sentinel ...