Surgical Oncology
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SLN surgery may suffice for node-positive breast cancer
Major Finding: SLN surgery correctly identified axillary nodal status in 91.2% of patients.
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Ten-year data back shorter radiotherapy for breast cancer
Major Finding: The relapse rate at 10 years was 4.3% after the shorter 40 Gy regimen and 5.5% after the longer 50 Gy regimen, a nonsignificant...
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy Boosts Survival in Locoregional Recurrent Breast Cancer
Major Finding: The 5-year disease-free survival rate after complete surgical removal of isolated local or regional recurrence of breast cancer was...
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Late Leukemia Risk Rises after Breast Cancer Therapy
Major Finding: The 10-year incidence of leukemia after adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer appears to hover around 0.5%, twice as high as...
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Less Invasive Biopsy Used Less in Black Breast Cancer Patients
Major Finding: From 2002 to 2007, significantly fewer black women than white women with invasive breast cancer underwent a sentinel lymph node...
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Rapid Feedback Boosts Adherence to Oncology Quality Measures
Major Finding: Compliance rates for five quality measures climbed to as high as 90% in centers that used RQRS.Data Source: Data on 31,590 breast...
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Patients' Worry, Not Risk, Drives Double Mastectomies
Major Finding: Eighty percent of 107 women who underwent contralateral prophylactic mastectomy had no clinical indication for the procedure.
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Screening Mammograms Overdiagnosed More Than 1 Million Women
Major Finding: Compared with the premammography era, routine screening now picks up 122 additional cases of early cancer per 100,000 women – just...
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Cardiac Toxicity Not Seen 25 Years after Breast Radiation
Major Finding: There were no significant differences in major cardiac function parameters between women treated with modified radical mastectomy...