PURPOSE: There is no consensus on what constitutes adequate negative margins in breast-
conserving therapy (BCT). We review the evidence on surgical margins in BCT for early …

BACKGROUND: Patients receiving breast conservation therapy have a lifelong risk of local
recurrence. To minimize this risk, surgeons have explored various approaches to examining …

Background Intraoperative radiotherapy with electrons allows the substitution of
conventional postoperative whole breast irradiation with one session of radiotherapy with …

Purpose There is no consensus on what constitutes adequate negative margins in breast-
conserving therapy (BCT). We systematically review the evidence on surgical margins in …

Objectives To examine whether rate of reoperation after breast conserving surgery is
associated with patients' characteristics and investigate whether reoperation rates vary …

PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between pathologic margin status and outcome at 8
years after breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS …

Inadequate surgical margins represent a high risk for adverse clinical outcome in breast-
conserving therapy (BCT) for early-stage breast cancer. The majority of studies report …

The main objective of the present study aims at comparing the long-term efficacy of breast
conserving surgery (BCS) vs. mastectomy (M) based on a randomized design. The Danish …

Multidisciplinary guidelines for management of invasive breast carcinoma from the American
College of Radiology, the American College of Surgeons, the College of American …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and 70% of breast cancer
deaths occur in women from low-income and middle-income countries. Latin America has …