A palpable breast lump is a common presentation of breast disease to a general practitioner.
Fortunately, investigation of most of these lumps will lead to a benign diagnosis. It is …

… Liana Roodt, hereby declare that the work on which this dissertation is based is my original
work (except where acknowledgements indicate otherwise), and that neither the whole work …

A 72-year-old woman presented with a slow growing mass on the left side of the abdomen,
which was found to originate from the mesentery of the descending colon. Histopathology …

Conclusions There is no current evidence to support the use of the breast light, thermography
or BTI/elastography as a screening or diagnostic tool for breast conditions. Non-…

Background: Female breast cancer has become the most frequently diagnosed cancer
globally. The breast cancer survival rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world. The …

The number of breast cancer cases at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) has almost doubled
over the last 18 years. The GSH breast cancer team has developed new strategies to …

A palpable breast lump is a common presentation of breast disease to a general practitioner.
Fortunately, investigation of most of these lumps will lead to a benign diagnosis. It is …

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) for breast cancer is being used more
frequently and current evidence support that NACT results in higher rates of breast-conserving …

The annual number of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients utilising the Groote Schuur
Hospital breast cancer service increased from 320 in 1999 to 608 in 2017. However, breast …

Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is performed for staging and prognostication
of breast cancer (BC) in cases with a clinically and radiologically negative axilla. Using …