Breast-conservation treatment outcomes: a community hospital's experience.

In the United States, the majority of early breast cancer patients choose breast-conserving treatment in the community setting, yet there is a paucity of literature describing outcomes. In this paper, we describe our experience with breast-conserving treatment in a small community hospital. Our hospital tumor registry was used to identify breast cancer cases diagnosed at our hospital between 1997 and 2003.

Conservative excision of wire-bracketed breast carcinomas: a community hospital's experience.

We report our experience with excision of hooked-wire bracketed breast carcinomas in a community hospital setting. The mammographic and pathology reports from 36 nonpalpable or minimally palpable breast cancers were retrieved from a single surgical oncologist's office records and a number of factors that might influence a successful initial surgical excision were examined. The median lesion size was 1 cm.