ALLMedicine™ Mastectomy Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Autologous free flap breast reconstruction (ABR) is a valuable surgical option for patients following mastectomy. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a myriad of factors that have affected access to care, hospital logistics, and post-operative outcom...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Microsurgical reconstruction for bilateral mastectomy defects after unilateral radiation often results in asymmetry, despite both flap tissues never being radiated. Photos of 16 patients who received prior radiation to one breast and underwent bil...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Introduction While many factors influence decisions related to the timing between mastectomy and flap-based breast reconstruction, there is limited literature comparing postoperative complications between immediate (IBR), delayed immediate (DIBR),...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Multifocal or multicentric (MFMC) breast cancer is mainly focused on breast cancer patients with unknown BRCA status, the incidence and clinical relevance of MFMC disease in BRCA1/2 carriers is less explored to date. Our study was to investigate t...

Mar 17th, 2023 - The main aim of the trial was to assess the combined impact of graded Thera-Band strengthening exercises and scapular stabilization exercises on shoulder pain, physical function, and quality of life (QoL) in post-mastectomy adhesive capsulitis (AC...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the United States, with surgical options including lumpectomy and mastectomy followed by breast reconstruction. Deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is a muscle-sparing perforator ...

Nov 7th, 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...

May 31st, 2020 - To develop a summary of recommendations regarding locoregional management of patients with breast cancer and germline mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes based on the American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society for Radiation...

Oct 27th, 2017 - The American Society of Plastic Surgeons commissioned a multistakeholder Work Group to develop recommendations for autologous breast reconstruction with abdominal flaps. A systematic literature review was performed and a stringent appraisal proces...

May 19th, 2017 - In the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Breast Cancer, among adjuvant radiotherapy options for whole-breast irradiation after breast-conserving surgery, hypofractionation is preferred. For the use of accelerated ...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The purpose of this study to test an alternative treatment approach that involves giving participants radiotherapy before their mastectomy (preoperative radiotherapy) and performing immediate reconstruction surgery at the time of mastectomy. The i...

Mar 10th, 2023 - From April 2017 onwards, only patients operated by mastectomy or those receiving neoadjuvant therapy and having a sentinel node biopsy before its initiation may be recruited into SENOMIC. The inclusion target has been met for those patients operat...

Mar 10th, 2023 - patients scheduled for modified radical mastectomy and axillary dissection under general anesthesia (GA) will be included in the study. The patients will be randomly allocated by a computer-generated table into one of the two study groups.Thoracic...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The study's primary goal was to find the effects of Kinesio taping and compression garments on the upper extremity lymphedema following mastectomy. This aim was realized through the current study results, the findings of the current study showed t...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Subject: Sixty- eight women treated for unilateral breast cancer with secondary upper limb lymphedema post mastectomy will participate in this study. Their ages will be ranged from 40 to 60 years, they will be free from any other diseases that wil...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Some common general surgeries had the biggest migrations to the outpatient setting during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a retrospective cohort study confirmed. Compared with the previous few years, calendar year 2020 saw disproportionat...

Mar 1st, 2023 - Yara Abdou, MD Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor Yields Better Survival Outcomes Than Tamoxifen or Tamoxifen and Aromatase Inhibitor in HR+/HER2+ Breast Cancer A post hoc analysis of the ShortHER trial, including 784 patients with hormone-positive (HR+.

Feb 24th, 2023 - Key clinical point: In patients with stage II/III estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer (BC), neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) with aromatase inhibitors downstaged a fair proportion of tumors to allow breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and.

Feb 24th, 2023 - Key clinical point: Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) did not offer any survival benefit to patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) irrespective of the presence of BRCA mutations. Major finding: The 5-year overall survival did.

Jan 27th, 2023 - Key clinical point: Autologous fat grafting (AFG) in the second stage of a 2-stage prosthetic breast reconstruction was linked to a higher risk for breast cancer (BC) recurrence when performed within a year after mastectomy. Major finding: Patient.