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| Vincent Vinh-HungSummaryAffiliation: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Country: Belgium Publications
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Prognostic factors in node-negative breast cancer: a review of studies with sample size more than 200 and follow-up more than 5 yearsAttiqa N Mirza
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Ann Surg 235:10-26. 2002..Because of technical difficulties and variations in the measurement of many of these factors, tumor size and tumor grade remain the only markers that currently have broad clinical usefulness for this patient group...
Modeling the effect of age in T1-2 breast cancer using the SEER databasePatricia Tai
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Saskatchewan, Faculty of Medicine, Regina, Canada
BMC Cancer 5:130. 2005..Modeling the relationship between age and mortality for breast cancer patients may have important prognostic and therapeutic implications...- Minimum follow-up time required for the estimation of statistical cure of cancer patients: verification using data from 42 cancer sites in the SEER databasePatricia Tai
University of Saskatchewan, Faculty of Medicine, Saskatoon, Canada
BMC Cancer 5:48. 2005..We introduced the term, threshold year, the follow-up time for patients dying from the specific cancer covers most of the survival data, leaving less than 2.25% uncovered. This is close enough to cure from that specific cancer... - Survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer: twenty-year data from two SEER registriesPatricia Tai
University of Saskatchewan, Faculty of Medicine, Saskatoon, Department of Radiation Oncology, Regina, Canada
BMC Cancer 4:60. 2004..Many researchers are interested to know if there are any improvements in recent treatment results for metastatic breast cancer in the community, especially for 10- or 15-year survival... 
Functional form of the effect of the numbers of axillary nodes on survival in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologisch Centrum, AZ VUB, B 1090 Jette, Belgium
Int J Oncol 22:697-704. 2003..Even when the number of involved nodes is already large, each additional involved node increases the relative mortality hazard by at least 1.3%...- Effect of the number of uninvolved nodes on survival in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologisch Centrum, AZ VUB, B 1090 Jette, Belgium
Oncol Rep 10:363-8. 2003..The incidental finding that ratio-based characterization of node involvement might be a prognostic factor will be further investigated... - Breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy: pooled-analysis for risks of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and mortalityVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Belgium
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:115-21. 2004..The objective of the study was to investigate whether radiotherapy or its omission after breast-conserving surgery has measurable consequences on local tumor growth and patient survival... - Ratios of involved nodes in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, AZ VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Belgium
Breast Cancer Res 6:R680-8. 2004.... - Statistical interaction in the survival analysis of early breast cancer using registry data: role of breast conserving surgery and radiotherapyVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Jette, Belgium
Tumori 91:9-14. 2005..To identify subgroup effects that might influence the survival results of postoperative radiotherapy... - No nodal cutoff in node-positive breast cancer women treated with mastectomyV Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital VUB, Jette, Belgium
Breast Cancer Res Treat 98:173-8. 2006..To search for a prognostic cutoff in the number of involved axillary lymph-nodes, in T1-T2 node-positive (N+) breast cancer treated with mastectomy without radiotherapy... 
Dosimetric assessment of static and helical TomoTherapy in the clinical implementation of breast cancer treatmentsTruus Reynders
Radiotherapy Department, Oncology Center, UZ Brussel, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 93:71-9. 2009..This study concentrates on the evaluation of the planning protocol for the TomoTherapy and TomoDirect TPS, dose verification and the implementation of in vivo dosimetry...- Survival benefit with radiation therapy in node-positive breast carcinoma patientsMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Strahlenther Onkol 185:656-62. 2009..The authors investigated whether postoperative RT provides a survival benefit for pT1-2 pN+ breast cancer patients... - Adjuvant radiotherapy after mastectomy for pT1-pT2 node negative (pN0) breast cancer: is it worth the effort?Mia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital V U B, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 68:227-31. 2003..Since little data on the importance of RT in this subgroup are known, we reviewed the clinical records with regard to overall survival... - Initial clinical experience with infrared-reflecting skin markers in the positioning of patients treated by conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancerGuy Soete
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 52:694-8. 2002..To evaluate an infrared (IR) marker-based positioning system in patients receiving conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer... - Omission of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery: survival impact and time trendsVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncologisch Centrum, AZ-VUB, Free University Hospital of Brussels, 101 Laarbeeklaan, B-1090 Jette, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 67:147-58. 2003..The data do not give support to omitting radiation or give rationale to clinical trials that would omit radiation... - The effect of adjuvant radiotherapy on mortality differs according to primary tumor location in women with node-positive breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, UZ Brussel, Jette, Belgium
Strahlenther Onkol 185:161-8; discussion 169. 2009..To evaluate the prognostic significance of primary tumor location and to examine whether the effect of adjuvant radiotherapy on survival varies according to tumor location in women with axillary node-positive (ALN+) breast cancer (BC)... - Post-surgery radiation in early breast cancer: survival analysis of registry dataVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncologisch Centrum, AZ-VUB, 101 Laarbeeklaan, B-1090 Jette, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 64:281-90. 2002..Likewise, survival advantage was observed with post-surgery radiation and breast-conserving procedure in node negative patients... - The lymph node ratio as prognostic factor in node-positive breast cancerMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital V.U.B, Laarbeeklaan 101, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 70:225-30. 2004..The nodes ratio improved on the absolute numbers of involved axillary lymph nodes for assessment of prognosis... - Lymph node ratio as an alternative to pN staging in node-positive breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, 101 Laarbeeklaan, 1090 Jette, Belgium
J Clin Oncol 27:1062-8. 2009..In this study, we assessed the prognostic value of the lymph node ratio (LNR; ie, ratio of positive over excised lymph nodes) as compared with pN staging and determined its optimal cutoff points... - Prognostic value of histopathology and trends in cervical cancer: a SEER population studyVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncologisch Centrum, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, 101 Laarbeeklaan, 1090 Jette, Brussels, Belgium
BMC Cancer 7:164. 2007..Histopathology is a cornerstone in the diagnosis of cervical cancer but the prognostic value is controversial... - Short course radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost for stage I-II breast cancer, early toxicities of a randomized clinical trialHilde Van Parijs
Department of Radiotherapy, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Radiat Oncol 7:80. 2012..hypofractionated Tomotherapy (TT) for post-operative treatment of breast cancer. The purpose of the trial is to compare whether TT can reduce heart and pulmonary toxicity. We evaluate early toxicities... - Health-related quality of life in survivors of stage I-II breast cancer: randomized trial of post-operative conventional radiotherapy and hypofractionated tomotherapyHarijati Versmessen
Department of Radiation Oncology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Brussels, Belgium
BMC Cancer 12:495. 2012..Tomotherapy uses an integrated computed tomography scanner to improve treatment accuracy, aiming to reduce the adverse effects of radiotherapy... - Scapula alata in early breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of post-surgery short-course image-guided radiotherapyNele Adriaenssens
Breast Clinic, Oncologic Surgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
World J Surg Oncol 10:86. 2012..We evaluated the risk factors associated with SA and the relationship of SA with ipsilateral shoulder/arm morbidity in a series of patients enrolled in a trial of post-surgery radiotherapy (RT)... - Toxicity and outcome results of a class solution with moderately hypofractionated radiotherapy in inoperable Stage III non-small cell lung cancer using helical tomotherapySamuel Bral
Department of Radiation Oncology, Oncology Center, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel UZB, Brussels, Belgium
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 77:1352-9. 2010..To prospectively assess the feasibility, toxicity, and local control of a class solution protocol of moderately hypofractionated tomotherapy in Stage III, inoperable, locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients... - Quantitative target sizes for breast tumor detection prior to metastasis: a prerequisite to rational design of 4D scanners for breast screeningVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital (AZ, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Belgium
Technol Cancer Res Treat 4:11-21. 2005..The breast cancer tumor target size for screening equipment, whether by imaging or molecular detection, is therefore 2 mm... - Clinical use of stereoscopic X-ray positioning of patients treated with conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancerGuy Soete
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 54:948-52. 2002..To evaluate accuracy and time requirements of a stereoscopic X-ray-based positioning system in patients receiving conformal radiotherapy to the prostate... - Adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer: effects of longer follow-upJan Van de Steene
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncology Centre, Academic Hospital-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 72:35-43. 2004..As a consequence, predictions based on pooled data including old radiotherapy trials should not be extrapolated to modern radiotherapy... - Catheter tip position as a risk factor for thrombosis associated with the use of subcutaneous infusion portsJo Caers
Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
Support Care Cancer 13:325-31. 2005..The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the different complications of infusion ports in our population and to identify predisposing factors... - TomoTherapy: implications on daily workload and scheduling patientsPaul Bijdekerke
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologisch Centrum, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 86:224-30. 2008..The aim of the study was to measure the mean duration of treatments and to investigate the occasional events, with extreme influence on treatment time... - Quality assurance of a system for improved target localization and patient set-up that combines real-time infrared tracking and stereoscopic X-ray imagingDirk Verellen
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center, Academic Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Laarbeeklaan 101, B-1090, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 67:129-41. 2003.... - Management of skin reactions during radiotherapy in Flanders (Belgium): a study of nursing practice before and after the introduction of a skin care protocolSven D'haese
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncology Center, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, B 1090 Brussels, Belgium
Eur J Oncol Nurs 14:367-72. 2010..To evaluate nursing practice in Flanders (Belgium) regarding skin care during radiotherapy and the effect of the introduction of an evidence based protocol on daily nursing practice... - [Skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction]Georges Vlastos
Unité de sénologie et d oncogynécologie chirurgicales, Département de gynécologie et obstétrique, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, 30 Boulevard de la Cluse, 1211 Geneve 14, Suisse
Bull Cancer 94:833-40. 2007..This article reviews the published data on skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction and aim to establish its current role in clinical practice, as there is a lack of prospective data... - Positive surgical margins and ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence predict disease-specific survival after breast-conserving therapyFunda Meric
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Cancer 97:926-33. 2003.... - The number of positive nodes and the ratio of positive to excised nodes are significant predictors of survival in women with micrometastatic node-positive breast cancerPauline T Truong
Department of Radiation Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver Island Centre, University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC, Canada
Eur J Cancer 44:1670-7. 2008.... - Long-term survival of patients with apparent early-stage (FIGO I-II) epithelial ovarian cancer: a population-based studyPatrick Petignat
Gynecologic Oncology and Senology Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Gynecol Obstet Invest 63:132-6. 2007..The aim of our study was to analyze the overall long term survival of EOC patients with a presumed early stage EOC... - Effects of radiotherapy and surgery for early breast cancerDonald Promish
Lancet 367:1652; author reply 1654-5. 2006 - Predictors of locoregional recurrence among patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast-conserving therapyNadeem Q Mirza
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 9:256-65. 2002..Disease-specific survival among patients with LRR was similar to that among patients with no recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: Multidisciplinary treatment strategies should be used to accomplish durable locoregional control after BCT... - Modeling the effect of tumor size in early breast cancerClaire Verschraegen
Division of Hematology Oncology, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Ann Surg 241:309-18. 2005..The purpose of this study was to determine the type of relationship between tumor size and mortality in early breast carcinoma... - [First-line chemotherapy of breast cancer: new standard at specialized units]Herve Bonnefoi
Département de gynécologie obstétrique, Service de Gynecologie, Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve
Rev Med Suisse Romande 123:309-12. 2003 - Breast-conserving surgery has equivalent effect as mastectomy on stage I breast cancer prognosis only when followed by radiotherapyElisabetta Rapiti
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Bd de la Cluse 55, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Radiother Oncol 69:277-84. 2003..In this data set the addition of radiotherapy to BCS substantially reduces mortality from breast cancer without increasing other causes of mortality after 10 years of follow-up... - Tumor location of the lower-inner quadrant is associated with an impaired survival for women with early-stage breast cancerSéverine Sarp
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Ann Surg Oncol 14:1031-9. 2007..As these metastases are not investigated, patients with lower-inner quadrant tumors have an increased risk of being under-staged and under-treated and may therefore have a higher risk of death from breast cancer... - Important increase of invasive lobular breast cancer incidence in Geneva, SwitzerlandHelena Marieke Verkooijen
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Cancer 104:778-81. 2003..Contrary to ductal cancer, trends for lobular cancer are unlikely to be explained by increased use of screening mammography. Other explanations must be researched, in particular the role played by hormone replacement therapy... - Breast-conservation therapy in early-stage breast cancer patients with a positive family historyGeorges Vlastos
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Senology Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Ann Surg Oncol 9:912-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Breast-conservation therapy is not contraindicated in early-stage breast cancer patients with a positive FH... - Long-term complications associated with breast-conservation surgery and radiotherapyFunda Meric
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 9:543-9. 2002..Breast-conservation surgery and radiotherapy is associated with grade 2 or greater complications in only 9.9% of patients. Nearly half of these complications are attributable to axillary dissection... - Complete excision of primary breast tumor improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer at diagnosisElisabetta Rapiti
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva
J Clin Oncol 24:2743-9. 2006..CONCLUSION: Complete surgical excision of the primary tumor improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis, particularly among women with only bone metastases... - Undertreatment strongly decreases prognosis of breast cancer in elderly womenChristine Bouchardy
Geneva Cancer Registry, 55 Boulevard de la Cluse 55, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
J Clin Oncol 21:3580-7. 2003..Treatments are influenced by unclear standards and are usually less aggressive. This study aims to evaluate determinants and effect of treatment choice on breast cancer prognosis among elderly patients... - Use of conservative surgery for stage I breast cancer falls dramatically for women aged 80 and olderElisabetta Rapiti
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1506-7. 2003 - Long-term survival after an aggressive surgical approach in patients with breast cancer hepatic metastasesGeorges Vlastos
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Unit 444, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 11:869-74. 2004..Hepatic resection should be considered a component of multimodality treatment of breast cancer in these patients... - Increased risk of second cancer among patients with ovarian borderline tumorsChristine Bouchardy
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Gynecol Oncol 109:210-4. 2008..Such risk has not been investigated for ovarian borderline tumors. We aim to evaluate the risk of subsequent cancer occurrence among patients with borderline ovarian tumors in a population-based setting... - [Collaboration patients-health care providers]Angela Grezet-Bento de Carvalho
Association Savoir Patient Réseau cancer du sein, Bd de la Cluse, Geneve
Rev Med Suisse 3:2418-20, 2422-3. 2007..Focusing on very concrete problems highlighted from patients' expertise also improves research, medical training, and health policy standards... - [Role of surgery for metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis]Georges Vlastos
Unité de sénologie et oncogynécologie, Service de Gynecologie, Département de gynécologie et d obstétrique chirurgicales, HUG, Geneve
Rev Med Suisse 3:2413-6. 2007..As these studies have been adjusted for factors that may induce biais, only a prospective clinical randomized trial may confirm the role of surgery in the management of metastatic breast cancer... - Patients' refusal of surgery strongly impairs breast cancer survivalHelena M Verkooijen
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Geneva University, Switzerland
Ann Surg 242:276-80. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Women who refuse surgery for breast cancer have a strongly impaired survival. This information might help patients who are hesitant toward surgery make a better informed decision... - Survival after bilateral breast cancer: results from a population-based studyHelena M Verkooijen
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Geneva University, 55 bd de la Cluse, CH 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
Breast Cancer Res Treat 105:347-57. 2007..Controversy exists on the impact of bilaterality of breast cancer on survival. We used population-based data to compare survival of women with unilateral versus bilateral breast cancer... - Minimally invasive approaches for diagnosis and treatment of early-stage breast cancerGeorges Vlastos
Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Gynecology, Senology and Surgical Gynecologic Oncology Unit, 30 Boulevard de la Cluse, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Oncologist 12:1-10. 2007..In this review, we give an overview of minimally invasive approaches for the diagnostic and therapeutic management of early-stage breast cancer... - Older female cancer patients: importance, causes, and consequences of undertreatmentChristine Bouchardy
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
J Clin Oncol 25:1858-69. 2007..Treatments are still influenced by unclear standards and have to be adapted to the older patient's general health status, but should also offer the best chance of cure... - Histopathological study of breast cancer and normal breast tissue after magnetic resonance-guided cryotherapy ablationMarc Pusztaszeri
Department of Clinical Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Cryobiology 55:44-51. 2007..Cryotherapy ablation is a minimally invasive procedure being investigated as an alternative to conventional surgery. There are few reports in breast cancer... - Long-term outcomes in patients with mucinous, medullary, tubular, and invasive ductal carcinomas after lumpectomyThao Vo
Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Surg 194:527-31. 2007..In this study, we evaluated the long-term outcomes of breast-conserving therapy (BCT) for these subtypes of breast cancer and compared them with those for invasive ductal carcinoma... - Survival of young and older breast cancer patients in Geneva from 1990 to 2001Elisabetta Rapiti
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Eur J Cancer 41:1446-52. 2005..We conclude that age is not an independent prognostic factor when accounting for breast tumor characteristics and treatment... - Family history of breast or ovarian cancer modifies the risk of secondary leukemia after breast cancer: results from a population-based studyHelena M Verkooijen
Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Cancer 122:1114-7. 2008..This excess risk is largely due to the increased risk of secondary chronic leukemia... - [Breast cancer surgery]Georges Vlastos
Service de Gynecologie, Unité de sénologie et d oncogynécologie chirurgicales, HUG, Geneve
Rev Med Suisse 3:2389-90, 2392-5. 2007..Sentinel node biopsy has already remplaced axillary lymph node dissection in the evaluation of the axilla. Local ablation of the tumor may be a valuable alternative to surgery in the future... - Prognostic value of nodal ratios in node-positive breast cancerWendy A Woodward
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2910-6. 2006..Here we examine the data supporting the use of nodal ratios in breast cancer prognosis and consider the potential advantages and disadvantages of including nodal ratios in breast cancer staging...