Breast Cancer Treatment in Elderly Patients
Age (years) White female (years) Black female (years) Hispanic female (years) 60 24.5 23 26.3 65 20.3 19.3 22.0 70 16.4 15.8 18.0 75 12.8 9.6 14.0 80 9.6 7.1…
ONCOLOGY
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Agent Target Stage Phase NCI number Glembatumumab vedotin gpNMB Metastatic I NCT01997333 Panitumumab + chemotherapy EGFR Neoadjuvant II NCT02593175 Selumetinib MEK Neoadjuvant II NCT02685657 Veliparib + lapatinib PARP, EGFR/Her-2 Metastatic…
New Techniques in Radiation Oncology
and Doris R. Brown1 (1) Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA Doris R. Brown Email: drbrown@wakehealth.edu KeywordsBreast cancerRadiotherapyRegional nodal irradiationPostmastectomy radiotherapyInternal mammary nodal irradiationNeoadjuvant…
Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Current Perspectives
Study Year published Study period Percentage increase in CPM of all patients over the study period Percentage increase in CPM of all mastectomy patients over the study period Data source…
Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Marissa Howard-McNatt (ed.)Changing Paradigms in the Management of Breast Cancer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60336-0_4 4. Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer Toan T. Nguyen1 and Judy C. Boughey1 (1) Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200…
Margins and Breast Cancer
Study Intervention Positive margin rate Re-excision rate Arm n % p-value % p-value Comice MRI 816 13%a n/s 16% 0.77 No MRI 807 15%a 19% Monet MRI 74 n/s n/s…
Investigating Symptoms Suggestive of Colorectal Cancer: Computed Tomographic Colonography or Colonoscopy?
Fig. 5.1 Matched endoluminal CTC (left panel), white-light endoscopic (middle panel) and narrow-band imaging endoscopic (right panel) images of a tumour in the ascending colon, just above the ileocecal valve….
Awareness of Colorectal Cancer: Recognition of Symptoms and Risk Factors by Socio-demographic Characteristics
Sample Sample n (%) Total 38,630 (100) Gender Women Men Missing 21,606 (56) 17,024 (44) 0 (0) Age (years) 15–54 55–74 75+ Missing 24,312 (63) 12,028 (31) 2290 (6) 0…
Enhancing Earlier Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer by Algorithmic Analysis of Trends in Complete Blood Counts
Fig. 4.1 Hb levels started within the normal range for all patients. Starting 10 years before the index date, the CRC cases and controls had similar and quite steady levels till…
Standardised Investigation and Referral of Alarm Symptoms for Colorectal Cancer
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Louise Olsson (ed.)Timely Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65286-3_6 6. Standardised Investigation and Referral of Alarm Symptoms for Colorectal Cancer Jane Young1, 2 and Michael Solomon1, 3 (1) School of Public Health, University…
