In 2001, an international conference panel comprised of an interdisciplinary group of
physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of breast disease met to discuss their …

… McCready † … We thank Dr. Arne Ohlsson, the HAD 5308H course instructor, for his valuable
critiques and insight throughout the preparation of this manuscript. … Correspondence to: Dr …

Background Most women with breast cancer who undergo breast-conserving surgery receive
whole-breast irradiation. We examined whether the addition of regional nodal irradiation to …

Background The goals of axillary-lymph-node dissection (ALND) are to maximise survival,
provide regional control, and stage the patient. However, this technique has substantial side-…

… We thank Dr. Keli Xu for advice and information on Notch activation system expression in
the mouse mammary gland. We also thank Dr. Subhash Juneja, Brenda Cohen, …

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

Background We determined the effect of breast irradiation plus tamoxifen on disease-free
survival and local relapse in women 50 years of age or older who had T1 or T2 node-negative …

Over the past several years, there has been an increasing rate of bilateral prophylactic
mastectomy (BPM) and contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) surgeries. Since publication …

LBA1003 Background: Randomized trials have demonstrated that locoregional radiation
after mastectomy reduces locoregional recurrence and improves overall survival (OS) in …

Numerous studies have examined the relationship between organochlorines and breast
cancer, but the results are not consistent. In most studies,organochlorines were measured in …