Objective: To provide information and recommendations to assist women with breast cancer
and their physicians in making decisions regarding the use of locoregional post-mastectomy …

Background Radiotherapy after mastectomy to treat early breast cancer has been known
since the 1940s to reduce rates of local relapse. However, the routine use of postoperative …

Almost 7 % of breast cancers are diagnosed among women age 40 years and younger in
Western populations. Clinical outcomes among young women are worse. Early age-of-onset …

Background Most women with breast cancer who undergo breast-conserving surgery receive
whole-breast irradiation. We examined whether the addition of regional nodal irradiation to …

Background: The British Columbia randomized radiation trial was designed to determine
the survival impact of locoregional radiation therapy in premenopausal patients with lymph …

This conference, a sequel to the Consensus Conference on the Classification of Ductal
Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) held in Philadelphia in 1997, focused on the epidemiology, diagnosis, …

Background We determined the effect of breast irradiation plus tamoxifen on disease-free
survival and local relapse in women 50 years of age or older who had T1 or T2 node-negative …

Purpose Adjuvant! ( www.adjuvantonline.com ) is a web-based tool that predicts 10-year
breast cancer outcomes with and without adjuvant systemic therapy, but it has not been …

BACKGROUND. Over the past decade, a number of new therapeutic agents have become
available in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (MBC). This study characterized the use …

PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of and contributing factors for chronic arm morbidity
including lymphedema in breast cancer patients after treatment and to assess the impact of …