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Breast cancer in the elderly: histological, hormonal and surgical characteristicsI Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin 70300, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Breast 16:60-7. 2007..1 vs. 55.1%), and less axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) (69.7 vs. 84.9%). We conclude that breast cancer characteristics and menstrual risk factors are similar in the two age groups...
The characteristics of malignant breast tumors in hormone replacement therapy users versus nonusersItzhak Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Ann Surg Oncol 11:52-8. 2004..The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of breast cancer in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) users vs. nonusers...
Mondor's disease of the axilla: a rare complication of sentinel node biopsyItzhak Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, and Department of Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
Breast J 10:253-5. 2004..The numbers of lymph nodes removed in each case were five, four, and two, respectively. All the events of Mondor's disease resolved spontaneously or following a short therapy of anti-inflammatory agents...
Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in men: a reviewItzhak Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, Division of Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
Clin Breast Cancer 6:310-4. 2005..In this review, the relevant literature dealing with male DCIS is summarized in an attempt to more precisely define the features of this disease...
Gastrointestinal carcinomas occurring in breast cancer patientsItzhak Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
Breast J 12:437-41. 2006..We conclude that the rate of GI malignancies in breast cancer patients is slightly lower than in comparable patients without breast cancer. GI malignancies tend to be diagnosed later and are found more often in the distal colon...
Diagnostic performance of a novel device for real-time margin assessment in lumpectomy specimensItzhak Pappo
Department of General Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zrifin, Israel
J Surg Res 160:277-81. 2010..A recently developed device for real-time intraoperative margin assessment (MarginProbe; Dune Medical Devices, Caesarea, Israel), was clinically tested. The work presented here looks at the diagnostic performance of the device...
The possible association between IVF and breast cancer incidenceI Pappo
Comprehensive Breast Care Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Zerifin, 70300, Israel
Ann Surg Oncol 15:1048-55. 2008..The possible association between ovulation-inducing drugs and breast cancer development has been debated. Our aim was to evaluate the incidence of breast cancer in a cohort of women exposed to in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
A device for real-time, intraoperative margin assessment in breast-conservation surgeryTami Karni
Breast Care Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zrifin Beer Yaakov, 70300, Israel
Am J Surg 194:467-73. 2007..This trial was designed to study performance of a novel handheld probe (Dune Medical Devices, Caesarea, Israel) in intraoperative detection of positive margins and its potential benefit toward minimizing the positive margin rate...
Indication for relumpectomy--a useful scoring system in cases of invasive breast cancerAriel Halevy
Division of Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
J Surg Oncol 105:376-80. 2012..In two-thirds of breast cancer patients undergoing reoperation no residual tumor will be found. A scoring system for selection of patients who might benefit from relumpectomy is proposed...
A similar cell-specific pattern of HOXA methylation in normal and in cancer tissuesAyelet Avraham
Department of Oncology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Zerifin, Israel
Epigenetics 5:41-6. 2010..Our results suggest that methylation of the HOXA cluster may be a normal developmental and cell type specific process rather than a cancer specific mechanism...
Breast hamartoma: fine-needle aspiration cytologic findingMehrdad Herbert
Department of Pathology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Cancer 99:255-8. 2003..Although fine-needle aspiration is a well established procedure for the detection of breast carcinoma, its utility in classifying benign breast disease is less clear...
