Breast conservation therapy confers survival and distant recurrence advantage over mastectomy for stage II Triple Negative Breast cancer.

Introduction: Recent studies suggest survival benefit of breast conservation over mastectomy. We evaluated distant recurrence (DR) rates after breast-conservation therapy (BCT) versus mastectomy in our community-based cancer institute.

Methods: A retrospective review of patients undergoing treatment of Stage 0-3 breast cancer from January, 2002 to December, 2011 was performed.

Post-operative radiation therapy for advanced-stage oropharyngeal cancer.

Between 1985 and 1999, 43 patients with locally-advanced, resectable oropharyngeal cancer were treated with combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy (RT) at Oregon Health and Science University. Five patients (12 per cent) had Stage III disease and 38 patients (88 per cent) had Stage IV disease. All patients had gross total resections of the primary tumour.