Purpose Complete surgical resection is the standard treatment for localized breast phyllodes
tumors. Post-surgical treatments are still a matter of debate. We carried out an overview of …

Skin-sparing (SSM) and nipple-sparing (NSM) mastectomies are relatively new conservative
surgical approaches to breast cancer. In SSM most of the breast skin is conserved to create …

Combustion synthesis (CS) is a materials manufacturing technique, which gained increased
attention by both academia and industries, due to its intrinsic energy saving characteristics …

Background Although numerous studies have shown that the status of the sentinel node is
an accurate predictor of the status of the axillary nodes in breast cancer, the efficacy and …

Background Axillary lymph-node dissection is an important staging procedure in the surgical
treatment of breast cancer. However, early diagnosis has led to increasing numbers of …

Background For patients with breast cancer and metastases in the sentinel nodes, axillary
dissection has been standard treatment. However, for patients with limited sentinel-node …

BACKGROUND: Axillary lymph node dissection is an established component of the surgical
treatment of breast cancer, and is an important procedure in cancer staging; however, it is …

Background Intraoperative radiotherapy with electrons allows the substitution of
conventional postoperative whole breast irradiation with one session of radiotherapy with …

Objective: Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is widely used to stage the axilla in breast cancer. We
present 10-year follow-up of our single-institute trial designed to compare outcomes in …

Background In women with breast cancer, sentinel-lymph-node biopsy (SLNB) provides
information that allows surgeons to avoid axillary-lymph-node dissection (ALND) if the SLN …