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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"lumpectomy"”.
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Examining Postoperative Pain in South Asian Females with Breast Cancer or Pre-Cancerous Lesions Following Mastectomy or Lumpectomy: A Feasibility Study
… that examines acute pain after mastectomy and lumpectomy. South Asian females were recruited in person or over the telephone from a breast cancer clinic in the Greater Toronto Area. Pain was examined using the numeric rating scale, the BPI-SF, on postoperative day (POD) 1 and 7. Analgesic use …
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Predicting the severity of radiation skin reactions in women with breast cancer
… collection period. All the women had undergone lumpectomy and were commencing a standard radiation protocol of 45 Gray to the whole breast delivered in daily fractions of 1.8 Gray over five weeks, and a 20 Gray electron boost to the lumpectomy site delivered in daily fractions of 2 Gray over two …
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Development of X-ray Fan Beam Coded Aperture Diffraction Imaging for Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostics
… final study was conducted where 22 human breast lumpectomy specimens were scanned and the SNN algorithm was modified for identification of human breast cancer. For 15 primary lumpectomy cases used for training and testing, an accuracy of 99.7% was achieved, with an ROC curve AUC of 0.953 and …
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Investing in Clinical Trials for Older Adults: The Value and Challenges of Older Adult-Specific Clinical Trials
… patterns, using phase 3 clinical trials for post-lumpectomy irradiation in early-stage breast cancer (ESBC) as a case study. The difference-in-differences analysis showed that older adult-specific trial results led to a significant decrease in irradiation use over time among older adults and the …
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Nonlinear Microscopy System and Protocol for Rapid Evaluation of Freshly Excised Human Tissue
… of intraoperative NLM evaluation (breast lumpectomy and radical prostatectomy). A pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of NLM imaging of bone. The studies in this thesis were performed in close collaboration with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. This thesis aims to develop NLM …
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Intra-operative Assessment of Breast Tumor Margins Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy
… was best when the probe was interfaced with lumpectomy specimens from the side; this methodology was maintained for all measurements from lumpectomies in this dissertation.</p><p>DR spectral images were acquired from lumpectomy margins and converted into composition maps of quantitative …
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Prevention of Radiation-Induced Skin Reactions in Breast Cancer External Irradiation
… the development of radiation dermatitis to postlumpectomy/ mastectomy patients receiving external beam radiation therapy in an ambulatory radiation-oncology clinic in the southeastern region of the United States. In this descriptive correlational study, a convenience sample of willing …
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A Multiscale Model for Breast-Conservative Therapy: Computational Framework and Clinical Validation
… model that could predict the breast shape after lumpectomy, from surgery to complete healing. This model consists of two parts: a hyperelastic Neo-Hookean Finite-Element Model of the breast tissues and skin, and a Cellular Automata model that mimics the biology of healing after surgery. The …
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Krūties carcinoma in situ tipai, diagnostika, gydymas ir prognozė /
… treatment methods are breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) or mastectomy. Surgery is usually followed by radiotherapy. Depending on the subtype of breast carcinoma in situ, the degree of spread and the risk factors that may increase the possibility of disease spread and recurrence, additional …
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Mammographic breast density as a mediator and surrogate marker for breast cancer risk
… parous, history of breast biopsy/aspiration/lumpectomy, and current use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), but not factors such as a first-degree family history of breast cancer and age at first live birth, history of smoking, age at menopause. These results help us better understand the …
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Breast Cancer Specimen Collection, Handling & Adherence to ASCO/CAP Guidelines
… Patients who had undergone mastectomy or lumpectomy were selected for the chart audits. </p> <p><strong>Results</strong></p> <p>Documentation of the time the specimen was removed from the body improved from 87.5% to 95%. Documentation of the time the specimen was placed in formalin …
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Do surgeons influence the treatment rates for T1 breast cancer patients at the local level of health care?
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women ages 35-54. A research consensus has been published stating that breast conserving therapy or surgery (BCT/BeS) and mastectomy treatments for T1 breast cancers yield comparable recurrence and survival rates. Standards of medical practice for …