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A Study of the Growth Patterns of Breast Carcinoma Using 3D Reconstruction: A Pilot Study.

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A comparison of sentinel node biopsy before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: timing is important

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A pilot study evaluating shaved cavity margins with micro-computed tomography: a novel method for predicting lumpectomy margin status intraoperatively

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A system for risk stratification and prioritization of breast cancer surgeries delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic: preparing for re-entry

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation using proton beams: initial clinical experience.

scientific article published in November 2006

Application of ACOSOG Z0011 criteria reduces perioperative costs.

scientific article published on 26 September 2012

Assessing the additional surgical risk of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy and immediate breast implant reconstruction

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Assessment of patient factors, surgeons, and surgeon teams in immediate implant-based breast reconstruction outcomes

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Breast Cancer Risk Reduction, Version 2.2015

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Breast Cancer Risk and Follow-up Recommendations for Young Women Diagnosed with Atypical Hyperplasia and Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS).

scientific article published on 05 August 2015

Breast Reconstruction With a Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap: Imaging Appearances of the Normal Flap and Common Complications

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Breast cancer diagnosis in women < or = 40 versus 50 to 60 years: increasing size and stage disparity compared with older women over time

scientific article published on 19 July 2006

CASE RECORDS of the MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. Case 29-2016. A 53-Year-Old Woman with Pain and a Mass in the Breast

scientific article published on September 2016

Case 22-2020: A 62-Year-Old Woman with Early Breast Cancer during the Covid-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 1-2015. A 66-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer after endocrine therapy.

scientific article published in January 2015

Clinical evaluation of a mobile digital specimen radiography system for intraoperative specimen verification

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Comparison of intra-operative specimen mammography to standard specimen mammography for excision of non-palpable breast lesions: a randomized trial

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Comparison of relative versus absolute arm size change as criteria for quantifying breast cancer-related lymphedema: the flaws in current studies and need for universal methodology ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

Cording following treatment for breast cancer

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Correction to: Feasibility Study of a Novel Protease-Activated Fluorescent Imaging System for Real-Time, Intraoperative Detection of Residual Breast Cancer in Breast Conserving Surgery

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Cost comparison of radiation treatment options after lumpectomy for breast cancer.

scientific article published on August 2012

Current surgical approach to Paget's disease ⬇️

scientific article published on October 28, 2011

Defining a threshold for intervention in breast cancer-related lymphedema: what level of arm volume increase predicts progression?

scientific article published on 04 August 2013

Detecting occult malignancy in prophylactic mastectomy: preoperative MRI versus sentinel lymph node biopsy

scientific article published on 22 June 2007

Diagnosis of breast cancer in women age 40 and younger: delays in diagnosis result from underuse of genetic testing and breast imaging.

scientific article published on October 2009

Do Lumpectomy Cavity Shaved Margins Really Not Impact Re-Excision Rates in Breast Cancer? A Reply

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Do sentinel node micrometastases predict recurrence risk in ductal carcinoma in situ and ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion?

scientific article published on 29 August 2008

Effectiveness and tolerability of neoadjuvant pertuzumab-containing regimens for HER2-positive localized breast cancer

scientific article published on 15 September 2018

Enhanced Recovery Minimizes Opioid Use and Hospital Stay for Patients Undergoing Mastectomy with Reconstruction

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Evaluation of a Nonradioactive Magnetic Marker Wireless Localization Program

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Evaluation of capsular contracture following immediate prepectoral versus subpectoral direct-to-implant breast reconstruction

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

External beam accelerated partial-breast irradiation using 32 gy in 8 twice-daily fractions: 5-year results of a prospective study

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Factors Associated with Recurrence Rates and Long-Term Survival in Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Ages 40 and Younger.

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Factors associated with fear of lymphedema after treatment for breast cancer.

scientific article published in September 2014

Feasibility Study of a Novel Protease-Activated Fluorescent Imaging System for Real-Time, Intraoperative Detection of Residual Breast Cancer in Breast Conserving Surgery

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Hemodynamic signature of breast cancer under fractional mammographic compression using a dynamic diffuse optical tomography system.

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High-Efficiency Same-Day Approach to Breast Reconstruction During the COVID-19 Crisis

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Immediate Implant Reconstruction Is Associated With a Reduced Risk of Lymphedema Compared to Mastectomy Alone: A Prospective Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Impact of Ipsilateral Blood Draws, Injections, Blood Pressure Measurements, and Air Travel on the Risk of Lymphedema for Patients Treated for Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Impact of adjuvant taxane-based chemotherapy on development of breast cancer-related lymphedema: results from a large prospective cohort

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Impact of body mass index and weight fluctuation on lymphedema risk in patients treated for breast cancer

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Improving surgical efficiency of immediate implant-based breast reconstruction following mastectomy

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

In reply

Incidental breast carcinoma: incidence, management, and outcomes in 4804 bilateral reduction mammoplasties

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Increasing eligibility for nipple-sparing mastectomy

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Initial dosimetric experience using simple three-dimensional conformal external-beam accelerated partial-breast irradiation

scientific article published on 06 January 2006

Is Excisional Biopsy Required After a Breast Core Biopsy Yields Lobular Neoplasia? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Is a higher boost dose of radiation necessary after breast-conserving therapy for patients with breast cancer with final close or positive margins?

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Long-Term Outcomes of Multiple-Wire Localizations for More Extensive Breast Cancer: Multiple-Wire Excision Does Not Increase Recurrence, Unplanned Imaging, or Biopsies

scientific article published on 23 November 2019

Long-term cosmetic outcomes and toxicities of proton beam therapy compared with photon-based 3-dimensional conformal accelerated partial-breast irradiation: a phase 1 trial.

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Lumpectomy cavity shaved margins do not impact re-excision rates in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 27 September 2011

Lumpectomy specimen margins are not reliable in predicting residual disease in breast conserving surgery.

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Lymphedema following treatment for breast cancer: a new approach to an old problem

scientific article published on 16 June 2013

Management of positive sub-areolar/nipple duct margins in nipple-sparing mastectomies

scientific article published on 02 June 2014

Micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT): a novel approach for intraoperative breast cancer specimen imaging

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Nipple Discharge After Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy With and Without Associated Pregnancy

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy in Irradiated Breasts: Selecting Patients to Minimize Complications.

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Node-Positive Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Can Be Spared Axillary Lymph Node Dissection with Wireless Non-Radioactive Localizers

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Nomogram for the prediction of having four or more involved nodes for sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer

scientific article published in May 2008

Normalization of compression-induced hemodynamics in patients responding to neoadjuvant chemotherapy monitored by dynamic tomographic optical breast imaging (DTOBI).

scientific article published on 04 January 2017

Oncologic Safety of Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy in Women with Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 05 July 2017

Outcome of multiple-wire localization for larger breast cancers: do multiple wires translate into additional imaging, biopsies, and recurrences?

scientific article published on September 2009

Outcomes of multiple wire localization for larger breast cancers: when can mastectomy be avoided?

scientific article published on 02 June 2008

Pathologic Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Long-Term Outcomes Among Young Women With Breast Cancer

scientific article published in October 2017

Phase II Study of Proton Beam Radiation Therapy for Patients With Breast Cancer Requiring Regional Nodal Irradiation

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Positive Nipple Margins in Nipple-Sparing Mastectomies: Rates, Management, and Oncologic Safety.

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Prepectoral Direct-to-Implant Breast Reconstruction: Safety Outcome Endpoints and Delineation of Risk Factors

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Proton therapy for breast cancer after mastectomy: early outcomes of a prospective clinical trial

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Radiation therapy risk factors for development of lymphedema in patients treated with regional lymph node irradiation for breast cancer.

scientific article published on March 2015

Radiofrequency identification tag localization is comparable to wire localization for non-palpable breast lesions

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

Real-time, intraoperative detection of residual breast cancer in lumpectomy cavity walls using a novel cathepsin-activated fluorescent imaging system

scientific article published on 09 June 2018

Reassessing risk models for atypical hyperplasia: age may not matter

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

Reply: To PMID 22997389

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Residual lymph node disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy predicts an increased risk of lymphedema in node-positive breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Retrospective Review of Pre-operative Radiofrequency Tag Localization of Breast Lesions in 848 Patients

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Risk of lymphedema after mastectomy: potential benefit of applying ACOSOG Z0011 protocol to mastectomy patients.

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Same-Day Prepectoral Direct-to-Implant Breast Reconstruction During the COVID-19 Crisis

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Screening for breast cancer-related lymphedema: the need for standardization

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Sentinel lymph node biopsy at the time of mastectomy does not increase the risk of lymphedema: implications for prophylactic surgery ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Sentinel node biopsy is important in mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ.

scientific article published on 22 September 2007

Should New "No Ink On Tumor" Lumpectomy Margin Guidelines be Applied to Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS)? A Retrospective Review Using Shaved Cavity Margins.

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Similar rates of residual disease in patients with DCIS within 2 mm of lumpectomy margin regardless of the presence of invasive carcinoma

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Smartphone Global Positioning System (GPS) Data Enhances Recovery Assessment After Breast Cancer Surgery

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Staging MR lymphangiography of the axilla for early breast cancer: cost-effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published in November 2008

Standardized method for quantification of developing lymphedema in patients treated for breast cancer

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Surgical excision of radial scars diagnosed by core biopsy may help predict future risk of breast cancer

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

The American Cancer Society guidelines for breast screening with magnetic resonance imaging: an argument for genetic testing

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

The adjuvant use of capecitabine for residual disease following pre-operative chemotherapy for breast cancer: Challenges applying CREATE-X to a US population

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

The feasibility of using natural language processing to extract clinical information from breast pathology reports ⬇️

scientific article published on June 30, 2012

The impact of breast cancer-related lymphedema on the ability to perform upper extremity activities of daily living

scientific article published on 7 March 2015

The impact of isolated tumor cells on loco-regional recurrence in breast cancer patients treated with breast-conserving treatment or mastectomy without post-mastectomy radiation therapy

scientific article published on 22 June 2014

The impact of radiation therapy on the risk of lymphedema after treatment for breast cancer: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

The role of chemoprevention in modifying the risk of breast cancer in women with atypical breast lesions.

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The safety of multiple re-excisions after lumpectomy for breast cancer

scientific article published on June 2011

Use of Preoperative Paravertebral Block Decreases Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Mastectomy Plus Immediate Reconstruction ⬇️

scientific article published on October 14, 2012

Using Smartphones to Capture Novel Recovery Metrics After Cancer Surgery

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Using machine learning to parse breast pathology reports

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Value of Mammography for Women 30-39 Years Old Presenting With Breast Symptoms

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

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