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Which real indications remain for mastectomy?
Cardoso, Maria-Joao; de Boniface, Jana; Dodwell, David; Kaidar-Person, Orit; Poortmans, Philip; van Maaren, Marissa C.The study of He et al. compared outcomes after breastconserving therapy including radiation therapy with mastectomy without radiation therapy, after preoperative systemic therapy for patients with early stage HER2- positive breast cancer.1 After a median follow-up of 9.9 years, breast-conserving therapy was associated with significantly higher overall survival compared to mastectomy (86.0% vs 79.3%; P = 0.02). ...
6th and 7th International consensus guidelines for the management of advanced b...
Cardoso, Fatima; Paluch-Shimon, Shani; Schumacher-Wulf, Eva; Matos, Leonor; Gelmon, Karen; Aapro, Matti S.; Bajpai, Jyoti; Barrios, Carlos H.This manuscript describes the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) international consensus guidelines updated at the last two ABC international consensus conferences (ABC 6 in 2021, virtual, and ABC 7 in 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal), organized by the ABC Global Alliance. It provides the main recommendations on how to best manage patients with advanced breast cancer (inoperable locally advanced or metastatic), of all brea...
Treatment and outcomes in breast cancer patients: a cross section study from th...
Aristei, Cynthia; Tomatis, Mariano; Ponti, Antonio; Marotti, Lorenza; Cardoso, Maria-Joao; Cheung, Kwok Leung; Curigliano, Giuseppe; De Vries, JakobIntroduction: The present study was designed to describe tumour features and treatments for patients with breast cancer. It also aimed at assessing the risk of distant metastases in relation to biological profiles, disease stages and treatment. Methods: Data were analysed from 81,882 patients in the EUSOMA database (disease stages at diagnosis 0-IV; median age 61 years; range 20-100 years). All patients were tr...
Sometimes it is better to just make it simple. De-escalation of oncoplastic and...
Bonci, E.-A.; Anacleto, J. Correia; Cardoso, Maria-JoaoSimple breast conservation surgery (sBCS) has technically advanced onto oncoplastic breast procedures (OBP) to avoid mastectomy and improve breast cancer patients' psychosocial well-being and cosmetic outcome. Although OBP are time-consuming and expensive, we are witnessing an increase in their use, even for cases that could be managed with sBCS. The choice between keeping it simple or opting for more complex o...
Risk reduction and screening of cancer in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer synd...
Sessa, C.; Balmaña, J.; Bober, S. L.; Cardoso, Maria-Joao; Colombo, N.; Curigliano, G.; Domchek, S. M.; Evans, D. G.; Fischerova, D.; Harbeck, N.