Phase II study of neoadjuvant anastrozole and concurrent radiotherapy for postmenopausal breast cancer patients.

Backgrounds: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant anastrozole and radiation in postmenopausal breast cancer patients with hormone-receptor-positive tumors. In addition, we assessed the predictive factors for clinical and pathological response for concurrent anastrozole and radiotherapy.

Methods: Patients with tumors 3 cm or larger were treated with neoadjuvant anastrozole for 24 weeks, and concurrent radiation was administered from 12 weeks after the start of anastrozole.

Repeat lumpectomy for ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence after breast-conserving treatment.

Objectives: There are limited data on the outcomes of patients treated with repeat lumpectomy at the time of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR).

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 78 patients who underwent repeat lumpectomy after IBTR. The risk factors for second IBTR were assessed.

Risk of Ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence in patients treated with Tamoxifen or Anastrozole following breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy.

Background: It is unknown whether anastrozole (Ana) is superior to tamoxifen (Tam) with regard to local control after breast-conserving surgery without radiotherapy (RT).

Patients And Methods: Two hundred and ninety-two breast cancer patients who had undergone breast-conserving surgery and been treated with Tam or Ana, with or without RT, were retrospectively analyzed. Ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR)-free survival rates were compared according to the treatment drug and RT.

Breast cancer with cartilaginous and/or osseous metaplasia diagnosed by lymph nodal metastasis: a case report.

Breast cancer with cartilaginous and/or osseous metaplasia is a type of metaplastic carcinomas and is a rare disease. We report the case of a 49 year-old female who underwent right mastectomy for a large breast tumor. Histological examinations revealed a mixed tumor with both stromal and epithelial elements;the stroma showed poor differentiated spindle-shape and multiform cells with a massive osseous matrix, and atypical epithelial cells, which mainly existed on the surface of the cysts, showed nucleic atypia.

Abscess formation of the round ligament of the liver: report of a case.

Abscess formation of the round ligament of the liver is very rare. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with abscess of the round ligament after an endoscopic papillotomy for choledocholithiasis. On the 21st day following papillotomy, abscess formation of the round ligament was found by ultrasonographic examination.