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La Senologia, l'Oncologia e la Salute della Donna nella pratica clinica
Senology, Oncology and Women's Health in Clinical Practice

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Editoriali in senologia/Editorials in Senology

• There is no strict indication to systematic MRI screening of the contralateral breast in women with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer- Stefano Ciatto - Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy

• A significant number of patients show discordant quantitative expression of molecular markers between primary breast cancer and nodal metastases- Dana Faratian - Edinburgh Breakthrough Research Unit and Division of Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

• Effect of a multimodal group exercise intervention in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy - Lis Adamsen - Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

• A history of smoking increases a woman.s risk for developing breast cancer -Ivana T. Croghan - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

• Human papillomavirus and breast cancer - James Lawson - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

• Oligometastatic disease is potentially curable with multimodality therapy incorporating stereotactic body radiation therapy - Mike Milano - Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

• Some elderly breast cancer patients may be spared lymph node evaluation - Anees B. Chagpar - Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

• Systemic inflammation may affect breast epithelial cancer - James Goedert - Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

• Routine dissection of the internal mammary chain sentinel node is safe and assists treatment planning for both chemotherapy and radiation therapy - John Boyages - New South Wales Breast Cancer Institute, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

• Impact of locoregional treatment on the survival of breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases - Romuald Le Scodan - Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Renéuguenin, Saint Cloud, France

• Radiotherapy After Segmental Resection is Beneficial Even Among Women With Low Risk Breast Cancer - Kaija Holli - Departments of Oncology and Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere University Medical School, Tampere, Finland

• A novel endoscopic-assisted technique for skin-sparing mastectomy - Ken-ichi Ito - Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto; Nagano, Japan

• Skin necrosis after partial breast irradiation - Edward R. Sauter, Steven Westgate, Janice Templemire - Departments of Surgery and Radiology, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Columbia, MO and Department of Surgery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

• Direct MR galactography is a feasible tool to work up nipple discharge - Siegfried A. Schwab - Department of Radiology, Universita' Erlangen-Nurnberg, German

• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use is associated with reduced risk for breast cancer - Bahi Takkouche - Department of of Preventive Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• The role of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in human breast cancer - Adrian V. Lee - Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX , USA

• Preoperative chemotherapy is a safe procedure for patients with early breast cancer - Janine van Nes - Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

• Removing 5 sentinel lymph nodes is enough for accurate lymph node staging in the vast majority of breast cancers - Kelly K. Hunt - Surgical Breast Section, Department of Surgical Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

• MRI is probably sufficiently sensitive to rule out bone marrow involvement in patients with malignant lymphoma - Thomas Kwee - University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Annual MRI is the screening test of choice for all women over 30 with BRCA mutations - Ellen Warner - Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Local ablative therapy of breast cancer - Heriberto Medina - Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition “Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

• Contribution of ultrasound in detecting breast cancer in women with dense breasts and negative mammograms - Stefano Ciatto - CSPO - Istituto Scientifico Prevenzione Oncologica, Firenze, Italy

• Women with breast cancer who exercise are more likely to survive longer than women who are less active - Crystal N. Holick - Ingenix i3 Drug Safety, Waltham, MA, USA

• Development of hypothyroidism is common in older breast cancer survivors - Grace L. Smith - Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

• Survival after adjuvant oophorectomy and tamoxifen in premenopausal women with operable breast cancer - Richard R. Love - Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

• Effect of breast cancer surgery timing during the menstrual cycle on prognosis - Richard Sainsbury - Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

• Diagnostic performance of MR imaging in patients suspected of having breast cancer - Nicky Peters - Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, E01.132, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Sarcomas of the breast - Sarcomas of the breast - Oscar Lambret Center, Lille, France; University of Lille II, Lille, France

• The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy in young patients with breast cancer in relation to hormone receptor status - Jos van der Hage - Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands

• Models for predicting the presence of mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes - Giovanni Parmigiani - The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

• Routine use of postoperative chest wall and nodal irradiation in all T3pN0 breast cancer patients may not be required - John E. Mignano - Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

• Quality of life is better in metastatic breast cancer women receiving chemotherapy than those under only supportive care - Michalis V. Karamouzis - First Department of Medical Oncology, St. Savvas Anticancer-Oncologic Hospital, Athens, Greece

• Combined influence of diet and physical activity on breast cancer survival - John Pierce - Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores University of California, San Diego Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA

• Long-term follow-up of early-stage breast cancer patients treated by breast-conserving surgery should be based on mammography - David Montgomery - University Department of Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

• The value of fiberoptic ductoscopy combined with cytology testing as a diagnostic procedure in women with nipple discharge - Guangyu Liu - Department of Breast Surgery, Cancer Hospital/Cancer Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

• Screening mammography in women 40 to 49 years of age - Amir Qaseem, Department of Clinical Programs and Quality of Care, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Survivors of Breast Cancer - Maartje J. Hooning, Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC, Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• Effect on disease-free survival of concurrent vs. sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for stage I-II breast cancer - Alain Toledano, Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Kaplan, Hopital Bretonneau, Tours, France

• Men diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of suffering a second cancer - Sacha Satram-Hoang, Epidemiology Division, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

• Prognostic significance of triple negative breast cancers with respect to locoregional relapse and distant metastasis in conservatively managed patients - Bruce G. Haffty, Department of Radiation Oncology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

• Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer risk - Lothar Heinemann, Centre for Epidemiology & Health Research Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• High-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell rescue for women with metastatic breast cancer - Sobha Kurian - West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

• Risk factors of breast cancer related lymphedema - Atilla Soran - Professor of Surgery, Director of International Breast Fellowship Program, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

• Core needle biopsy and subsequent excisional biopsy in patients with breast high-risk lesions - Julie Margenthaler - Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

• Sentinel lymph node biopsy should be considered in all patients with a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion - Giorgio Zavagno - Clinica Chirurgica II, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

• Role of FDG-PET/CT in the assessment of suspected recurrent breast cancer - Simona Ben-Haim - Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

• Clinical benefit of radiation therapy for older women with DCIS - Ben Smith - Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

• Postmastectomy radiation therapy is associated with improved survival for older women with high-risk breast carcinoma - Ben Smith - Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

• “Below threshold” familial breast cancer risk information can be conveyed by letter, but attention should be given to further support for these women - Michael Steel - Tayside Breast Cancer Family Clinic, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK

• Gene expression profiling can identify individual patients at increased risk of developing a local recurrence after breast-conserving therapy - Dimitry Nuyten - Division of of Experimental Therapy, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Prior oral contraceptive use is associated with premenopausal breast cancer - Chris Kahlenborn - Department of Internal Medicine, Altoona Hospital, Altoona, PA, USA

• Perineural invasion in patients with invasive breast carcinoma - Nuvit Duraker - Fifth Department of Surgery, SSK Okmeydani Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

• Positive impact of a patient information booklet about BRCA genetic testing - Julien Mancini and Claire Julian-Reynier - INSERM UMR379, Epidemiology and Social Sciences Unit, Paoli-Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France

• Structured, group-based cognitive behavior stress management may ameliorate cancer-related anxiety during active medical treatment for breast carcinoma - Mike Antoni - Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA

• Utility of FDG PET for evaluating treatment response in breast cancer - Rod Hicks - Centre for Molecular Imaging, The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

• Breast conservation may be offered to women with prior augmentation mammoplasty when selected appropriately - Kristin L Brill - Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

• Nanoparticles for detection of breast cancer metastases - Carola Leuschner - Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU System, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

• Multicentric Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Biopsy - Michael Knauer - Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital, Feldkirch, Austria

• Altri Editoriali / Other Editorials

• Descrizione di una tecnica chirurgica originale per l'estroflessione del capezzolo, G.M. Baratelli, Chirurgia Ospedale Moriggia Pelascini e Centro di Senologia della Delegazione Alto Lario della Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro i Tumori - Gravedona, Como

• Evoluzioni nel trattamento chirurgico del carcinoma mammario precoce: mini-review., Unita' Operativa di Chirurgia Senologica, Universitàa' cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Policlinico Agostino Gemelli - Roma

• "Ductal Carcinoma in situ: surgical therapy. A mini review" - Franceschini G et al., Unita' Operativa di Chirurgia Senologica, Universitàa' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Policlinico Agostino Gemelli - Roma, Italy

• Noccioli P et al.: "Neuroendocrine tumors of the breast: our experience"- U.O. Senologia Chirurgica P.O. “G. Bernabeo” , Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Cliniche e Sperimentali – Chieti, Italy

Interviste cliniche in Senologia:

• Intervista a Gianni Bonadonna

• Interview with Dick Rainsbury, consultant at Westminster Hospital, Winchester

Quiz: Senological Quiz

Immagini Diagnostiche: Immagini diagnostiche in Senologia/Diagnostic images in Senology

Letteratura senologica/Senological Literature: nuove conoscenze in Senologia

News senologiche/Senological News: notizie dal mondo in Senologia

Documenti in Senologia :

• Istituzione Unita' di Senologia - Breast Unit

• Relazione sul cancro al seno nell'Unione Europea

Comunicati stampa/Press releases : Comunicati stampa senologici

Selected abstracts from "The Breast"

• Potential role of chemo-radiation with oral capecitabine in a breast cancer patient with central nervous system relapse

• Relationship between prognostic factors of breast cancer and 99mTc-sestamibi uptake in patients who underwent scintimammography: Multivariate analysis of causes of false-negative result

• Validity of needle core biopsy in the histological characterisation of mammary lesions

• Is mammography overused in male patients?

• Adverse outcome and resistance to adjuvant antiestrogen therapy in node-positive postmenopausal breast cancer patients - The role of p53

• Differentiation of benign from malignant breast disease associated with screening detected microcalcifications using dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

• Mammographic densities and circulating hormones: A cross-sectional study in premenopausal women

• Rethinking TNM: Breast cancer TNM classification for treatment decision-making and research

• Standards for follow-up care of patients with breast cancer

• Sentinel lymph node biopsy for localised ductal carcinoma in situ?

• When mastectomy becomes inevitable: The nipple-sparing approach

• Intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (ELIOT) to the breast: A need for a quality assurance programme

• Prognostic and predictive factors revisited

• Management of women at high risk for breast cancer: New imaging beyond mammography

• Preoperative (neoadjuvant) systemic treatment of breast cancer

• Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer "one fits all"?

• Erysipelas of the upper extremity following locoregional therapy for breast cancer

• Breast carcinoma in diabetic mastopathy

• Management of lactational breast abscesses

• Can sonography be used to help differentiate between radial scars and breast cancers?

• Docetaxel and cisplatin combination chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer patients with previous exposure to anthracyclines

• Occult breast lesions: A comparison between radioguided occult lesion localisation (ROLL) vs. wire-guided lumpectomy (WGL)

• Selective use of post-mastectomy flap irradiation in high-risk breast cancer patients

• Categorizing breast mammographic density: intra- and interobserver reproducibility of BI-RADS density categories

• BRCA1 and BRCA2 germ-line mutations and oral contraceptives: to use or not to use

• Systematic review of LHRH agonists for the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer

• Quality of life and patient satisfaction in breast cancer patients after immediate breast reconstruction: a prospective study

• Audit of local recurrence rates following 'ultra' -conservative surgery for invasive breast cancer- a boost to the breast?

• Histopathological findings in surgical specimens obtained from reduction mammaplasties

• Other Abstracts

SEZIONE PER I MEDICI DI MEDICINA GENERALE / SECTION FOR FAMILY PHYSICIANS :
Carcinoma della mammella
di M. Keshtgar e R. Stein, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
Il Tumore al seno - Prevenire, curare, vivere
di Gian Paolo Andreoletti
Clinical Review
Casi ed immagini cliniche

SEZIONE PER LE PAZIENTI / SECTION FOR PATIENTS :
Guardare oltre: Conoscere il tumore alla mammella per sconfiggerlo
Esercizi di riabilitazione per la paziente operata al seno
Per dirlo loro, un aiuto per le mamme
Risposte alle domande più frequenti
Vocabolario senologico

SEZIONE PER GLI OPERATORI SANITARI NON MEDICI / SECTION FOR PARA-MEDICAL PERSONNEL :
Sezione per gli infermieri professionali
Sezione per i tecnici di radiologia
Sezione per i tecnici di radioterapia
Sezione per i terapisti della riabilitazione

EVENTI e CONGRESSI in Senologia / Senological Events

Calendario degli eventi e dei congressi

Congress Reports

Update of the HERA trial at 4 years' median folllow-up - HERA trial study team, St Gallen, March 2009

2007 Miami Breast Cancer Conference - Video presentations

Top ten Priorities in Translational Breast Cancer Research - presented at Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 10th International Conference, St. Gallen, Switzerland, March 17, 2007

Altri Reports congressuali

DAI CENTRI DI SENOLOGIA

Unita' operativa di Senologia di Bergamo

Unita' operativa di Senologia di Padova

Unita' operativa di Senologia di Caserta

U.O.s "CENTRO DI SENOLOGIA" - Dipartimento di Chirurgia - AUSL di Piacenza

Links:

• Senologic International Society
• Breast Cancer Collections The New England Journal of Medicine
• Medscape's Breast Cancer Resource Center
• British Medical Journal Collected Resources: Breast Cancer
• The Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA - Breast Cancer Collection
• National Cancer Institute: Breast Cancer
• MD Anderson Cancer Center: Breast Cancer
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Breast Cancer
• European Society of Mastology
• International Breast Cancer Study Group, IBCSG
• American Society of Breast Disease
• Senonetwork
• Societa' Italiana di Senologia, SIS
• Scuola Italiana di Senologia - Forza Operativa Nazionale sul Carcinoma Mammario - Gruppo Italiano per lo Screening Mammografico
• Scuola di Oncologia Chirurgica Ricostruttiva
• A.I.O.M.- Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica
• A.N.I.S.C.- Associazione Nazionale Italiana Senologi Chirurghi
• A.S.I.- Associazione Senologica Interregionale
• EUROPA DONNA - The European Breast Cancer Coalition
• Associazione per la Lotta ai Tumori del Seno
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• O.N.Da. - Osservatorio Nazionale sulla Salute della Donna
• Breast Cancer Advisory Community
• Altri links