The management of breast cancer has evolved into a multidisciplinary evidence-based
surgical speciality, with emphasis on conservative surgery. A number of landmark trials have …

Objective: The MARI procedure [marking the axillary lymph node with radioactive iodine
(125 I) seeds] is a new minimal invasive method to assess the pathological response of …

Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been recently detected in the circulation of cancer
patients, where they are associated with clinical parameters. Discovery profiling of …

Abstract Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is a rare and very aggressive breast cancer, still
associated with poor prognosis. Therefore, management of IBC requires carefully integrated …

Abstract Osteopontin (OPN), a malignancy-associated secreted phosphoprotein, is a
prognostic plasma biomarker for survival in metastatic breast cancer patients. We evaluated …

Aim The purpose of this work is to give practical guidelines for radiotherapy of locally
advanced, inflammatory and metastatic breast cancer at first presentation. Methods A …

Magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) facilitates noninvasive image-
guided conformal thermal therapy of cancer. Yet in many scenarios, the sensitive tissues …

Background The purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors related to recurrence
in women treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and to predict the recurrence …

Purpose The aim of this study is to evaluate the long-term outcome of patients with locally
advanced breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy (NST) in routine …

Objective: The lack of objective documentation of pre-neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC)
tumour margins is a major constraint in performing safe breast conserving surgery (BCS) in …