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Sentinel lymph node positivity of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ or microinvasive breast cancerAngela Katz
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Blossom Street, Cox 31, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Surg 191:761-6. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine the rates of sentinel lymph node (SLN) positivity in patients with a final diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or microinvasive breast cancer (MIC)...- Can axillary dissection be avoided in patients with sentinel lymph node metastasis?Angela Katz
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Surg Oncol 93:550-8. 2006..Who should undergo a completion dissection following identification of a +sentinel lymph node (SLN) is controversial... - Factors associated with involvement of four or more axillary nodes for sentinel lymph node-positive patientsAngela Katz
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65:40-4. 2006..The purpose of this study was to define possible predictors of having 4 or more involved axillary nodes... 
Nomogram for the prediction of having four or more involved nodes for sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancerAngela Katz
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Blossom St, Cox 301, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:2093-8. 2008..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...- Locoregional recurrence after doxorubicin-based chemotherapy and postmastectomy: Implications for breast cancer patients with early-stage disease and predictors for recurrence after postmastectomy radiationWendy A Woodward
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57:336-44. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Postmastectomy radiation decreases LRR for patients with breast cancer, including those with Stage II breast cancer and one to three positive lymph nodes... - Dosimetric comparison of proton and photon three-dimensional, conformal, external beam accelerated partial breast irradiation techniquesKevin R Kozak
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65:1572-8. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Compared to photon-electron 3D-CPBI, proton 3D-CPBI significantly reduces the volume of irradiated nontarget breast tissue. Both approaches to accelerated partial breast irradiation offer exceptional lung and heart sparing... - Accelerated partial-breast irradiation using proton beams: initial clinical experienceKevin R Kozak
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 66:691-8. 2006..Because of the dosimetric advantages of proton 3D-CPBI, technique modifications are being explored to improve acute skin tolerance... - Clinical investigation: regional nodal failure patterns in breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy without radiotherapyEric A Strom
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 63:1508-13. 2005.... - Low local recurrence rate without postmastectomy radiation in node-negative breast cancer patients with tumors 5 cm and largerScott R Floyd
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 66:358-64. 2006..LVI was significantly associated with LRF in our series, indicating that patients with this risk factor require careful consideration with regard to further local therapy... - Locoregional treatment outcomes for inoperable anthracycline-resistant breast cancerEugene Huang
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 53:1225-33. 2002..Alternative therapeutic strategies such as novel systemic agents, use of planned myocutaneous repair for closure, or radiation combined with radiosensitizing agents, should be considered in this class of patients... - Pathologic tumor size and lymph node status predict for different rates of locoregional recurrence after mastectomy for breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant versus adjuvant chemotherapyThomas A Buchholz
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 53:880-8. 2002..To compare the pathologic factors associated with postmastectomy locoregional recurrence (LRR) in breast cancer patients not receiving radiation who were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NEO) vs. adjuvant chemotherapy (ADJ)... - The role of radiation therapy in preventing regional recurrences of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the vulvaAngela Katz
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57:409-18. 2003..CONCLUSION: RT alone or in combination with LND is highly effective in preventing INR in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva and is associated with a low risk of major late complications... - Dosimetric comparison of two different three-dimensional conformal external beam accelerated partial breast irradiation techniquesKevin R Kozak
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65:340-6. 2006..The multiple, noncoplanar photon field technique exposes smaller volumes of ipsilateral lung and heart to low dose radiation at the expense of increased plan complexity and larger irradiated breast volumes... - Radiation therapy for breast cancerJennifer R Bellon
Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 20:239-57, vii. 2006..This article summarizes the adjuvant role of RT after mastectomy and lumpectomy, as well as the rationale and techniques for partial-breast irradiation... - Lung dose-volume parameters and the risk of pneumonitis for patients treated with accelerated partial-breast irradiation using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapyAbram Recht
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston MA 02215, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:3887-93. 2009..We therefore examined the risk of pneumonitis in relation to lung dose-volume parameters... - Accelerated partial breast irradiation using proton beams: Initial dosimetric experienceAlphonse G Taghian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65:1404-10. 2006..We present our initial experience with protons for three-dimensional, conformal, external-beam accelerated partial breast irradiation (3D-CPBI)... - Initial dosimetric experience using simple three-dimensional conformal external-beam accelerated partial-breast irradiationAlphonse G Taghian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 64:1092-9. 2006..Several accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) techniques are being investigated in patients with early-stage breast cancer. We present our initial experience using three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT)... - Predictors of local-regional recurrence after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy without radiationThomas A Buchholz
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:17-23. 2002..To define clinical and pathologic predictors of local-regional recurrence (LRR) for patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy without radiation... - Age as a predictor of outcome for women with DCIS treated with breast-conserving surgery and radiation: The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center experienceAnuja Jhingran
Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 54:804-9. 2002..To analyze the long-term outcome of breast conservation therapy in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in a single institution and to analyze the prognostic importance, if any, of young patient age...