ALLMedicine™ Mastectomy Center

May 15th, 2021 - Malignant lesions of the vermiform appendix make up a rare subset of colorectal cancer. While colorectal cancer frequently metastasises to the liver, lung, regional lymph nodes and peritoneum, metastasis to the breast is extremely rare. Here, we d...

May 15th, 2021 - Breast cancer metastasis to the ureter is rare. Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET)/computed tomography (CT) is widely used to identify primary lesions of metastatic tumours, however, 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging fe...

May 14th, 2021 - Patients who have undergone mastectomy, with or without reconstruction, are not universally screened with mammography or US. Therefore, clinical breast examination by the physician and patient-detected palpable abnormalities are crucial for detect...

May 14th, 2021 - Reconstructive techniques for restoring sensation to the breast after mastectomy continue to evolve. The BREAST-Q is a patient-reported outcome measure that can be used to evaluate outcomes of breast cancer treatments; however, it previously lacke...

May 13th, 2021 - Endoscopic oncoplastic breast surgery represents a minimal invasive approach with the aim of both safe excision of cancer and preserving the breast shape. It has less noticeable scar, excellent cosmetic outcomes, high patient satisfaction rate. Re...

Nov 6th, 2020 - Mastectomy may be performed to treat breast cancer or as a prophylactic approach in women with a high risk of developing breast cancer. In addition, mastectomies may be performed with or without reconstruction. Reconstruction approaches differ and...

Jan 8th, 2020 - In this cohort study of 316 women with breast cancer who were participants in the Southwest Oncology Group S8814 randomized clinical trial, an intermediate or high recurrence score was associated with a significantly increased risk of locoregional...

May 20th, 2019 - Immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) rates after mastectomy are increasing. Postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) contouring guidelines for target volumes in the setting of IBR are lacking. Therefore, many patients who have had IBR receive PMRT...

Mar 28th, 2019 - More than 300,000 women and teenagers underwent breast implant augmentation surgeries in 2017. In addition, approximately 106,000 women underwent breast implant surgery for reconstruction after mastectomy. The popularity of breast implants has ris...

Mar 12th, 2019 - For many years after the commercialization of multigene panel testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, BRCA1 and BRCA2 remained the most commonly identified pathologic variants. Recent studies have found that variants in genes ot...

May 15th, 2021 - Malignant lesions of the vermiform appendix make up a rare subset of colorectal cancer. While colorectal cancer frequently metastasises to the liver, lung, regional lymph nodes and peritoneum, metastasis to the breast is extremely rare. Here, we d...

May 15th, 2021 - Breast cancer metastasis to the ureter is rare. Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET)/computed tomography (CT) is widely used to identify primary lesions of metastatic tumours, however, 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging fe...

May 14th, 2021 - Patients who have undergone mastectomy, with or without reconstruction, are not universally screened with mammography or US. Therefore, clinical breast examination by the physician and patient-detected palpable abnormalities are crucial for detect...

May 14th, 2021 - Reconstructive techniques for restoring sensation to the breast after mastectomy continue to evolve. The BREAST-Q is a patient-reported outcome measure that can be used to evaluate outcomes of breast cancer treatments; however, it previously lacke...

May 13th, 2021 - Endoscopic oncoplastic breast surgery represents a minimal invasive approach with the aim of both safe excision of cancer and preserving the breast shape. It has less noticeable scar, excellent cosmetic outcomes, high patient satisfaction rate. Re...

May 9th, 2021 - Overall survival and breast cancer–specific survival were consistently better for women with early breast cancer who were treated with breast conservation surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy (RT) compared to women who were treated with mastecto...

Apr 25th, 2021 - One step led to another. That is the message expounded by Keira Bell, a 24-year-old British woman who lives daily with the regret of transitioning to male gender in her teens. She received puberty blockers after just a few appointments at a gender...

Mar 10th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In women with pathogenic variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2, risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) to help avoid ovarian cancer also appears to reduce breast-cancer risk, particularly within five years of surgery, accordi...

Feb 16th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women undergo medically unnecessary contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, and reducing the rate of these procedures requires a "social change" involving patients and physicians, as well as cultural and systems-lev...

Feb 4th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women who received a mastectomy and decided to "go flat" rather than undergo breast reconstruction reported that they were happy with their surgeries, according to a team of surgeons and oncologists. As part of a g...