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An Example from the Rural Areas of Turkey: Women Breast Cancer Risk Levels and Application and Knowledge Regarding Early Diagnosis-Scan of Breast Cancer
(2017)
Objective: This research has been conducted for the purpose of determining the cancer risk levels of women living in a small village of in Saraycik village of Ankara and their knowledge and application of breast cancer ...
Centralization of mammography reporting with mobile trucks: Turkish experience
(2018)
Screening via mammography is a complex process to be implemented. Objective: To report the initial results and the effectiveness of newly implemented Turkey's population based breast cancer screening program performed for ...
Assessment of Risk Factors of Obesity and Diet on Breast Cancer in Ankara, Turkey
(2016)
Objective: To determine the risk factors of obesity and diet on breast cancer in Ankara, Turkey.
Methods: A case-controlled study was carried out on newly diagnosed 40 breast cancer patients [patient group (PC)] and 40 ...
Sarcoidosis mimicking metastatic breast cancer in a patient with early-stage breast cancer
(2016)
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disorder of unknown origin that affects the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes in most patients. The coexistence of sarcoidosis and breast cancer has been reported. An unfortunate ...
Retrospective Analysis of Patients with Synchronous Primary Breast and Thyroid Carcinoma
(2018)
Objective: Breast and thyroid cancers are commonly encountered malignancies. Increased risk of breast cancer in follow-up period of thyroid cancer or vice versa has been reported. However, they have some associations, ...
Prognostic Value of Metabolic Response Measured by FDG-PET-CT in Patients with Breast Cancer Liver Metastasis Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
(2018)
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the impact of metabolic response measured by 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography (FDG-PET-CT) in patients with breast cancer liver metastasis (BCLM) treated ...
Stewart-Treves Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of Literature
(2018)
Stewart-Treves syndrome (STS) is defined as angiosarcoma arising in the setting of chronic lymphedema. It is typically presented in breast cancer patients who underwent axillary dissection. A 79-year-old woman presented ...
The Comparision of Breast Cancer in the Young and Elderly Patients
(2019)
OBJECTIVE
To compare the tumor characteristics, treatment approaches, recurrence patterns and survival results rates of young and elderly patients with breast cancer.
METHODS
In this study, Between between 2000-2013, ...
Radiotherapy After Skin-Sparing Mastectomy and Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction
(2019)
We aimed to evaluate the cosmetic results of radiotherapy in 170 breast cancer patients after implant-based reconstruction. Cosmetic results were excellent or fair in most patients after radiotherapy. However, bolus use, ...
Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of Breast Cancer: Correlation of the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Value with Pathologic Prognostic Factors
(2019)
Objective: The aim was to evaluate relationship between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values with pathologic prognostic factors in breast carcinoma (BC).
Materials and Methods: 83 patients were enrolled in this ...
Determining Breast Cancer Treatment Costs Using the Top Down Cost Approach
(2019)
Objective: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in Turkey, with approximately 15.000 breast cancer diagnoses each year. In this study, our goal was to determine annual direct medical costs of all ...
Dosimetric Comparison of Sequential Versus Simultaneous-integrated Boost in Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Breast-conserving Surgery
(2019)
Background/Aim: To compare simultaneous-integrated boost (SIB) versus sequential-boost (SB) delivered in the context of whole-breast irradiation (WBI) via volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) and helical-tomotherapy ...
Diagnostic Accuracy of Axillary Ultrasound in Early-Stage Breast Cancer
(2019)
Sentinel lymph node biopsy is the standard application for evaluating the axilla in patients with breast cancer. The Z0011 trial conducted by The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) revealed that axillary ...
Does Marital Adjustment Mediate Type C Personality-Depressive Symptoms Relation? A Comparison between Breast Cancer Patients and Cancer-Free Women
(2019)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between Type C personality and depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients, and to examine if marital adjustment mediates this relation. The data was collected ...
Associations between the expression of mucins (MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC and MUC6) and clinicopathologic parameters of human breast carcinomas
(2020)
Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationships between the expression of mucins in invasive breast carcinomas and clinicopathologic parameters. Materials and Methods: We examined 150 cases of invasive breast ...
The Role of Selvester Score on 12-Lead ECG in Determination of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Among Patients Receiving Trastuzumab Therapy
(2019)
Objective: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Trastuzumab is an effective breast cancer agent. The most significant side effect of trastuzumab is left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Selvester score ...
The use of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography to detect mediastinal lymph nodes in metastatic breast cancer
(2020)
Background: To assess the predictive value of F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in detecting mediastinal lymph node metastasis with histopathologic verification in breast cancer (BC) ...
Comparison between body composition parameters and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy by using pre-treatment PET CT in locally advanced breast cancer
(2020)
Purpose: To compare the adipose and muscle tissue areas in patients who responded differently to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Methods: One hundred and eighty six patients diagnosed with breast cancer who underwent neoadjuvant ...
The Comparison of Helical-IMRT, Direct-IMRT and 3D Radiotherapy Modalities in Breast Radiotherapy Planning
(2020)
OBJECTIVE
This study aims to compare dosimetric 3D-CRT, Tomo-helical mu and Direct IMRT methods in intact breast irradiation.
METHODS
Radiotherapy was planned with three different techniques simulated images of ...
Effects of Setup Errors on Dose Distribution for Tangential Wedge Field and Field-in-Field Techniques During Breast Irradiation
(2014)
This study is aimed to evaluate the effects of setup errors on dose distribution for target volume and healthy tissue within the irradiated volume and also critical surrounding organs for breast radiotherapy (RT) using ...