Importance Breast cancer will be diagnosed in 12% of women in the United States over the
course of their lifetimes and more than 250 000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed …

Oncology care is increasingly a multidisciplinary endeavour, and radiation therapy
continues to have a key role across the disease spectrum in nearly every cancer. However …

The therapeutic options for patients with noninvasive or invasive breast cancer are complex
and varied. These NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer include …

Importance Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of care for axillary node
staging of patients with early breast cancer (BC), but its necessity can be questioned since …

PURPOSE To provide recommendations on the best strategies for the management and on
the best timing and treatment (surgical and radiotherapeutic) of the axilla for patients with …

Accurate identification of axillary lymph node (ALN) involvement in patients with early-stage
breast cancer is important for determining appropriate axillary treatment options and …

Automated detection of cancer metastases in lymph nodes has the potential to improve the
assessment of prognosis for patients. To enable fair comparison between the algorithms for …

Background Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in
patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases …

The diagnosis and treatment of invasive breast cancer requires a collaborative effort among
multiple subspecialties. Diagnostic imaging workup and biopsy play a key role in …

ABSTRACT The 15th St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2017 in Vienna,
Austria reviewed substantial new evidence on loco-regional and systemic therapies for early …