Self-compression Technique vs Standard Compression in Mammography: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Many women dread undergoing mammography, and some may not attend or reattend breast cancer screening because of the discomfort or pain induced by breast compression.

Objective: To evaluate the noninferiority of the self-compression mammography technique for reducing breast thickness compared with standard compression.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This prospective, parallel-group, noninferiority randomized clinical trial was conducted from May 7, 2013, to October 26, 2015, at 6 cancer care centers in France.

Are the criteria of Tabar and Dean still relevant to radial scar?

Objective: Aschoff's center of proliferation (ACP), poses significant problems of differential diagnosis both in imagery and histology with infiltrating carcinoma. Up to now the criteria of Tabar and Dean (classical criteria) are considered as diagnostically relevant.

Material: A retrospective study of 113 cases, enabled us to study their clinical, radiological and histological aspects.

[Vacuum-assisted stereotactic biopsy: experience of the regional cancer center of Caen].

Purpose: To report our experience with macrobiopsy under stereotaxy.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective study of 248 procedures in 236 patients for microcalcifications in 95% of cases. The macrobiopsies were performed under Mammotome for lesions graded ACR 3, ACR 4 and ACR 5 in 8.

High grade primary breast lymphoma: is it a different clinical entity?

Primary lymphoma of the breast (PBL) is a rare neoplasm, its outcome remains unclear compared to other lymphomas. We performed a retrospective study of 19 cases of high grade PBL. There were 17 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and 2 follicular and diffuse grade 3 lymphomas.