Breast cancer in women over 75 years: is axillary dissection always necessary?

Objective: To study how the information gained from axillary dissection in women (75 years old or more) with breast cancer influenced postoperative adjuvant treatment.

Design: Retrospective review of casenotes.

Setting: University departments of surgery and oncology, Sweden.

The general mammography screening program in Stockholm. Organisation and first-round results.

This presentation describes the organization and first-round results of the Stockholm mass mammography screening program, and discusses ways of checking the quality of an ongoing screening program. The Stockholm mammography screening program started in 1989 at five independent screening units, and comprises more than 150,000 women aged 50 to 69 years. The first round was completed in June 1991.

Treatment failure and dietary habits in women with breast cancer.

Background: Epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that breast cancer risk can be reduced by dietary measures. Study of the relationships between dietary habits and prognosis in patients with breast cancer is essential to the design of diet intervention trials.

Purpose: Our purpose was to determine whether dietary habits are associated with disease-free survival in patients with breast cancer who have undergone treatment.

Contralateral primary tumors in breast cancer patients in a randomized trial of adjuvant tamoxifen therapy.

Prophylactic treatment with the anti-estrogen tamoxifen may reduce the risk of breast cancer because estrogens are thought to act as promoters in the pathogenesis of the disease. This article presents results on the incidence of contralateral new primary tumors among 1846 postmenopausal breast cancer patients included in a randomized trial of adjuvant tamoxifen therapy for 2 or 5 years after surgery versus no adjuvant endocrine therapy. The median follow-up was 7 years (range, 3-13 years).

Dietary habits and prognostic factors in breast cancer.

The relationship between dietary habits and prognostic factors for breast cancer was studied in 240 women aged 50-65 years who had surgery for breast cancer between 1983 and 1986. A dietary history interview was conducted within the 4 months following resection of the primary tumor. In the stepwise multivariate analysis, the multiple-odds ratio (OR) for having a tumor greater than or equal to 20 mm in diameter was 0.