Long-term follow-up of nipple-sparing mastectomy without radiotherapy: a single center study at a Japanese institution.

Recent reports have suggested that nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) is a potential alternative to mastectomy (MT). The aim of our study was to investigate the oncological and technical outcomes of NSM compared with MT using long-term follow-up data. A total of 932 patients between April 1985 and March 2004 were enrolled in our study.

[Bi-weekly nab-paclitaxel and trastuzumab therapy effective against recurrent breast cancer with multiple lung metastases in elderly patient who had previously undergone two chemotherapeutic regimens for treatment of metastatic disease-a case Report].

We herein report a 75-year-old patient with recurrent hormone-nonresponsive, HER2-positive breast cancer who presented with multiple lung metastases. She had undergone a mastectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy with FEC, CMF, and UFT. Forty-six months after the surgery, multiple lung, liver, and bone metastases were observed.

[Nineteen years postoperatively, anastrozole, UFT and cyclophosphamide combination therapy remained effective against recurrent hormone responsive breast cancer with intraabdominal lymphnode, pleural, skin and bone metastases in old age following sixteen-year tamoxifen treatment - a case report].

We report an 89-year-old patient with recurrent hormone-responsive breast cancer who presented with pleural, skin and bone metastases. Nineteen years previously, she had undergone a mastectomy and then for 16 years received adjuvant hormone therapy. The patient was orally administered a combination therapy of anastrozole, UFT and cyclophosphamide.

[Doxifluridine, medroxyprogesterone acetate and cyclophosphamide (DMpC) combination therapy is effective against recurrent triple negative breast cancer--a case report].

We report a postmenopausal recurrent breast cancer patient with triple negative disease who presented with right recurrent nerve palsy. Nine years previously, she had undergone a mastectomy. FDG-PET scan revealed neck lymph node metastases from the breast cancer.

Magnetic resonance axillography for preoperative diagnosis of the axillopectoral muscle (Langer's axillary arch): a case report.

The axillary arch of Langer is the most common muscular variation in the axilla. Recognition of anatomic variations is important for surgeons to perform safe axillary surgery. We describe a case of a woman with breast cancer, in whom sentinel lymph node biopsy was successfully performed and the presence of this anomaly preoperatively diagnosed by magnetic resonance axillography.