Incidence of occult carcinoma and high-risk lesions in mammaplasty specimens.

Objectives. To determine the incidence and type of premalignant or malignant changes in mammaplasty specimens and to determine the incidence of these changes according to age distribution. Methods.

Screening mammography in men with BRCA mutations: is there a role?

Male breast cancer is rare, with an estimated incidence of 1.08 per 100,000 men, and a death rate less than one third of that. However, the incidence of breast cancer in men with the BRCA2 mutation is significantly higher, 7.

Noncompliance with adjuvant radiation, chemotherapy, or hormonal therapy in breast cancer patients.

Introduction: There is little information on patient-driven noncompliance of adjuvant therapies and its consequences.

Methods: This retrospective study compares clinical, pathological features and outcomes of breast cancer patients who were compliant to recommended radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapies to those who were noncompliant.

Results: Noncompliance rates for chemotherapy, radiation, and tamoxifen were 31 of 421 (7%), 30 of 855 (4%), and 294 of (37%) respectively.

Reoperative sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with locally recurrent breast cancer.

Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is considered a standard of care in the staging of breast cancer. The objective was to examine our experience with reoperative SLNB.

Methods: We identified 19 patients in our breast cancer database who had a SLNB in the reoperative setting.