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Breast cancer treatment: surgery, radiotherapy

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
  • Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Early Stage Breast Cancer [2002]

Canada

• Cancer Care Ontario
  • Surgical Management of Early Stage Invasive Breast Cancer [2003]

• Steering Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: 16. Locoregional post-mastectomy radiotherapy [2004]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: 6. Breast radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery (2003 update) [2003]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: Mastectomy or lumpectomy? The choice of operation for clinical stages I and II breast cancer (summary of the 2002 update) [2002]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: 3. Mastectomy or lumpectomy? The choice of operation for clinical stages I and II breast cancer (2002 update) [2002]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: 4. Axillary dissection [1998]

Europe

• European Society of Mastology
  • The curative role of radiotherapy in the treatment of operable breast cancer [2002]
  • Quality control in prophylactic mastectomy for women at high risk of breast cancer [2002]
  • Quality control in the locoregional treatment of breast cancer [2001]

International

• Breast Health Global Initiative
  • Breast radiation therapy guideline implementation in low- and middle-income countries [2008]

• Cochrane Library
  • Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer
  • Post-operative radiotherapy for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
  • Fraction size in radiation treatment for breast conservation in early breast cancer

United Kingdom

• British Association of Surgical Oncology
  • Surgical guidelines for the management of breast cancer [2009]
  • Oncoplastic Breast Surgery - a guide to good practice [2007]

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Endoscopic mastectomy and endoscopic wide local excision for breast cancer [2009]
  • Brachytherapy as the sole method of adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer after local excision [2008]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Postmastectomy Radiotherapy [2008]
  • Practice Guideline for the Management of Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ of the Breast (DCIS) [2006]
  • Practice Guideline for Breast Conservation Therapy in the Management of Invasive Breast Carcinoma [2006]
  • Local Regional Recurrence and Salvage Surgery - Breast Cancer [2006]
  • Ductal Carcinoma in Situ [2006]

• American Society of Breast Surgeons
  • Statement on Breast Surgery Quality Initiatives [2009]
  • Revised Consensus Statement for Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation [2008]
  • Position Statement on Ablative and Percutaneous Treatment of Breast Cancer [2002]
  • Statements

• American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • Postmastectomy Radiotherapy: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology [2001]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® postmastectomy radiotherapy [2008]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® conservative surgery and radiation-stage I and II breast carcinoma [2008]
  • Radiotherapy for breast cancer in countries with limited resources: program implementation and evidence-based recommendations. Breast Health Global Initiative [2006]
  • Local regional recurrence (LR) and salvage surgery--breast cancer. American College of Radiology [2006]
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ. American College of Radiology [2006]

Articles in journals

• Acta Oncologica
  • Timing of breast cancer surgery in relation to the menstrual cycle - The rise and fall of a hypothesis [2008]

• American Family Physician
  • Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer [2002]

• Breast Cancer
  • Quality of life of breast cancer patients and types of surgery for breast cancer--current status and unresolved issues [2007]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Radiation treatment for breast cancer [2002]

• Canadian Journal of Surgery
  • Surgical management of early stage invasive breast cancer: a practice guideline [2005]

• Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Cardiac mortality and morbidity after breast cancer treatment [2008]

• Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Evidence-Based Risk Factors for Seroma Formation in Breast Surgery [2006]

• Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
  • External hypofractionated whole-breast radiotherapy: Now where does accelerated partial breast irradiation stand? [2007]
  • Breast cancer radiotherapy and cardiac risk: The 15-year paradox! [2007]

• Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy: pooled-analysis for risks of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and mortality [2004]
  • Ovarian ablation as adjuvant therapy for premenopausal women with breast cancer--another step forward [2003]
  • Inflammatory breast issue [2003]

• Pathology Oncology Research
  • The role of boost irradiation in the conservative treatment of stage I-II breast cancer [2001]

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