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ReviewReports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology

Synchronous bilateral breast cancer patients submitted to conservative treatment and brachytherapy - The experience of a service.

Joana Pinheiro, Darlene Rodrigues, Pedro Fernandes, Alexandre Pereira, Lurdes Trigo

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Review in Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joana PinheiroRadiotherapy Service of the Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Darlene RodriguesRadiotherapy Service of the Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.
Pedro FernandesBrachytherapy Service of the Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, Portugal.
Alexandre PereiraMedical Physics Service of the Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, Portugal.
Lurdes TrigoBrachytherapy Service of the Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, Portugal.
IPO Porto · PTUnidade Local de Saúde de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe incidence of breast carcinoma (BC) has increased in the last years. Between 2 and 12% of patients diagnosed with BC will develop bilateral breast carcinoma (BBC). The treatment of these carcinomas is more aggressive than unilateral BC. PURPOSE: To perform a retrospective qualitative analysis of BBC patients whose treatment has included brachytherapy (BT) and to present a revised literature on this issue. MATERIAL AND

methodsThe cases of BBC whose treatment included brachytherapy were revised. The literature on this issue was refreshed.

resultsFive women, aged between 54 and 78 at the time of the diagnosis, submitted to conservative surgery followed by external radiotherapy (RT) with boost of BT or exclusive BT (APBI), in the IPO-P BT Service between 2003 and 2016. DISCUSSION: The patients with BBC have slightly higher rates of local recurrences, mostly in the tumor bed, where there is a higher risk of local recurrence. Patients treated with BT had lower rates of recurrences than those treated with photons and electrons.

conclusionsBBC represents a complex challenge for doctors, because in some cases there is a tendency to use more aggressive treatments and, at the same time, it is not easy to achieve the timing for the correct treatment.

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APBIBilateral breast carcinomaBoostBrachytherapy

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PMID30127671
PMCPMC6097463
OpenAlexW2886172042

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