Mehra Golshan

..Breast-conserving surgery in male breast cancer patients should be considered an option in patients without overt nipple/areolar involvement...

..Whole breast ultrasonography has been shown to identify lesions not seen on mammography. This study sought to determine how often whole breast ultrasonography changes the surgical management of breast cancer...

..Subsequent therapy consisted of standard adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy...

..There are limited data on the safety of bevacizumab (bev) in the neoadjuvant setting. We sought to explore the safety of neoadjuvant cisplatin/bev in a protocol for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)...

..We sought to determine the frequency of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations in women who underwent BCT. Genetic testing results were compared with the prior probability of mutations in either gene...

..In experienced hands, methylene blue alone is a highly sensitive method of detecting SLNs. Avoiding the greater frequency of allergic reactions seen with lymphazurin is an important advantage of methylene blue...

..The increasing number of breast cancer survivors and the high prevalence of the disease will continue to make lymphedema a significant consequence of breast cancer treatment...

..The purpose of this study was to define possible predictors of having four or more involved nodes to provide information for clinicians and patients making decisions about adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation...

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..In this highly selected group of patients who had a positive SLNB but did not undergo cALND, we observed no axillary recurrences...

..Women who underwent mastectomy, as well as women who were more anxious, were more likely to decrease their level of physical activity. Women with DCIS might benefit from targeted interventions to increase physical activity...

..However, even in patients with visualized primary IMN drainage, the potential benefit of treatment should be balanced against the risk of added morbidity...

..Multiple studies have confirmed the safety of both chemotherapy before breast surgery and immediate reconstruction. Little has been written about the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on decisions about reconstruction...

..The aim of this study was to compare the morbidity of sentinel node biopsy only, sentinel node biopsy followed by axillary dissection, and axillary node dissection only...

..Retrospective analyses suggest patients with stage IV breast cancer who undergo breast surgery have improved survival. We sought to determine whether surgery and other clinical and staging factors affected overall survival...

..Paget's disease constitutes between 1% and 3% of all breast malignancies, which makes defining standard surgical therapy difficult. We sought to identify preoperative factors that would select patients for successful breast conservation...

..Tubular carcinoma (TC) of the breast is an uncommon subtype associated with a favorable prognosis. This study aimed to assess recent trends and prognostic features in the treatment of TC...

..We sought in a longitudinal cohort study of women with DCIS to assess the attitudes and management approaches toward DCIS among physicians who provide care to women...

..We sought to clarify the influence of the mastectomy margin on the risk of LRR...

..94, CI 0.83-1.08, P=0.38). When matching for the variables associated with a survival benefit in previous studies, surgery was not shown to improve survival in the stage IV setting for this subset...

..We review the literature available and discuss future directions in identifying a subgroup who may avoid an ALND...

..We hypothesized that more tissue would be resected with MRIbx compared to Mammobx. We also sought to evaluate factors that might predict the presence of breast cancer in patients undergoing MRIbx...

..Mucinous breast cancer is typically associated with a favorable prognosis. This study aimed to assess recent trends and prognostic features in the treatment of mucinous breast carcinoma...

..The purpose of this study is to review imaging studies performed in patients who received preoperative chemotherapy prior to surgery and determine whether MRI, ultrasound (US) or physical exam best predicted final pathologic tumor size...

..There is uncertainty about the utility of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and its potential to avoid axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in patients undergoing mastectomy for DCIS...

..The management of intraductal papillomas of the breast has been controversial; some advocate surgical excision of all lesions despite benign pathologic features, whereas others excise only those specimens with atypia...

..CONCLUSION: The high rate of lymph node-positive disease, even in this series of patients with clinically node-negative disease, reflects the later presentation of breast cancer in men...

..This study was performed to determine whether the technique increases the risk for skin flap necrosis in an immediate breast reconstruction setting...

..Preliminary studies have suggested that women with DCIS may overestimate their risk of disease recurrence. Few data exist regarding psychosocial outcomes for women with DCIS...

..This study demonstrates that gross examination and specimen radiography do not identify most of the malignancies in MRI-localized biopsies and, therefore, optimal processing requires complete microscopic examination of these specimens...

..This has an important impact on long-term postoperative management of patients with breast cancer...

..Reconstruction was possible in five of six patients. Sentinel lymph node biopsy should not be considered a contraindication after breast reduction surgery...

..We document the immunophenotype, incidence of axillary metastases, and rate of recurrence in a well-defined case series...

..In very rare cases, tumor cells within the epidermis invade through the basement membrane of the skin into the dermis...

..This article reviews the literature related to this controversial and evolving topic...