Breast cancer screening has been shown to significantly reduce mortality in women. The
increased utilization of screening examinations has led to growing demands for rapid and …

In the United States, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Along
with genetics, the environment contributes to disease development, but what these exact …

Questions:(1) In female patients with locally advanced breast cancer (labc) and good
response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nact), including endocrine therapy, what is the role of …

BACKGROUND: Abdominoperineal resection is a procedure associated with high rates of
perineal surgical site infections, causing distress to the patient, costs to the hospital system, …

Purpose The neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer (NABC) is a rapidly changing area that
benefits from guidelines integrating evidence with expert consensus to help direct practice. …

Purpose An increasing proportion of patients (> 30%) with node-positive breast cancer will
obtain an axillary pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). If …

In recent years, a greater appreciation for the microbes inhabiting human body sites has
emerged. In the female mammary gland, milk has been shown to contain bacterial species, …

PURPOSE To provide recommendations on the best strategies for the management and on
the best timing and treatment (surgical and radiotherapeutic) of the axilla for patients with …

Delayed recurrences, common in breast cancer, are well explained by the concept of tumour
dormancy. Numerous publications describe clinical times to disease recurrence or death, …

Tamoxifen is a widely utilized adjuvant anti-estrogen agent for hormone receptor-positive
breast cancer, known to undergo CYP2D6-mediated bioactivation to endoxifen. However, little …