For women with a specific type of breast cancer known as HER2-positive (HER2+), any residual (leftover) disease after primary ...

Radiation has been a staple of breast cancer treatment for decades, but a new study is casting doubt on whether it is ...

Their recurrence rate, she said, is comparable to reported rates of disease recurrence after standard mastectomy. Furthermore, the procedure has several advantages over standard mastectomy. "Often, a ...

Despite major therapeutic advances, breast cancer remains prone to recurrence, particularly in patients with early-stage ...

An AI model significantly improved recurrence risk stratification vs. recurrence score among patients with hormone ...

The risk of isolated locoregional recurrence after initial treatment was 5.6% among young women diagnosed with breast cancer. This was lower than a previously reported 10-year rate of 8% among all ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A shorter radiation therapy regimen conferred similar outcomes as standard of care for women undergoing breast ...

Patients with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer whose nodes are pathologically tumor-free (ypN0) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy may safely skip post-mastectomy nodal irradiation without ...

Decision Support for Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Effects of an Interactive Breast Cancer CDROM on Treatment Decision, Satisfaction, and Quality of Life PURPOSE: Risk factors for local and ...

When locoregional recurrence does occur, radiation treatment is feasible, particularly with reconstructions using autogenous tissue from the patient. In the MD Anderson Cancer Center series, [16] 19 ...

The benefit of regional nodal irradiation in the treatment of breast cancer is well established for patients with pathologically positive axillary nodes, but whether it is also beneficial for patients ...

The patient is a 58-year-old woman with stage 2a breast carcinoma. Initial wide excision and sampling of axillary nodes revealed one positive node, but the margins were not clear. She is now finishing ...