The Breast and Oncoplastic Multidisciplinary Team

Dec 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on The Breast and Oncoplastic Multidisciplinary Team

© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Lynda Wyld, Christos Markopoulos, Marjut Leidenius and Elżbieta Senkus-Konefka (eds.)Breast Cancer Management for Surgeonshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56673-3_16 16. The Breast and Oncoplastic Multidisciplinary Team Fiona MacNeill1  , Marios Konstantinos Tasoulis1   and Melissa Ley Hui Tan1   (1) Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Rd, London,…

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Molecular Profiling of Breast Cancer and DCIS

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Fig. 9.1 The increasing complexity of clinical decision-making in early-stage breast cancer 9.2 Multigene Assays in Invasive Breast Cancer: Prognostication Since 2004, several MGAs have become available to clinicians treating early-stage…

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Screening for High-Familial-Risk Women

Dec 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Screening for High-Familial-Risk Women

Fig. 6.1 Mammography in a 52-year-old woman with three sisters diagnosed with breast cancer at ages 45, 49 and 55 years old. Digital mammography was performed annually for the past 5 years. Within…

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Guided Radiotherapy

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Fig. 1 a CT scan of the brain. b MR scan of the brain. There are two small metastatic lesions clearly visible in the MR scan that are invisible in the…

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and Image Guided Systemic Radiotherapy

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Fig. 1 Select examples of radiation dose-toxicity curves demonstrating that a reduction in dose to normal organs is associated with a decrease in late organ toxicities such as pneumonitis, nephritis and…

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Modeling in Radiation Oncology

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where α (1/Gy) and β (1/Gy2) are parameters that determine the shape of the curve. Indeed, a vast literature exists on the mechanistic and empirical history of this famous equation,…

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Stem Cells and Tumor Microenvironment in Radiotherapy

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Fig. 1 Representative images showing the different acini structures generated from immortalized normal human breast epithelial MCF10A, breast cancer MCF7 and BCSCs isolated from MCF7 population that survived a course of…

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