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Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) Guide to Clinical Breast Assessment (CBA)
Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) is an international body of experts from disciplines of surgery, radiology, pathology, medical and radiation oncology, plastic surgery, and breast support group dedicated to ...
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Breast cancer screening guidelines: discrepancies raise concerns about validity
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Open AccessmTOR inhibition abrogates human mammary stem cells and early breast cancer progression markers
Mammary physiology is distinguished in containing adult stem/progenitor cells that are actively amending the breast tissue throughout the reproductive lifespan of women. Despite their importance in both mammar...
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ASOMA GUIDE for Managing Breast Pain
The breast pain or mastalgia is the commonest presenting symptom to a breast clinic. It is estimated that about 60 to 70% of all patients visiting breast clinic suffer from mastalgia. In majority of women, mas...
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Why Should We Avoid Excisional Biopsy of Breast Lump? ASOMA Guide for Managing a Discrete Breast Lump
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Over-Diagnosis and Breast Cancer Screening
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and recognition of over-diagnosis as an important public health problem and potential source of harm with implications for overtreatment and other adver...
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Advances in Breast Cancer Screening: Precision, Imaging, and Harms
According to data from GLOBOCAN 2018, the incidence of new breast cancer cases continues to increase worldwide across all age groups. This trend is especially evident in Asian and African countries with rates ...
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Risk-Reducing Surgery for Breast Cancer
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in identifying women with genetic predisposition and this has been facilitated by enhanced understanding of the genetic basis for breast cancer susceptibi...
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Mitigating Cancer Overdiagnosis
Overdiagnosis refers to the detection of cancers that pose no threat to life and would never have been detected in the absence of screening. It is now a major public health concern throughout the world because...
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Open AccessTargeting aberrant replication and DNA repair events for treating breast cancers
The major limitations of DNA-targeting chemotherapy drugs include life-threatening toxicity, acquired resistance and occurrence of secondary cancers. Here, we report a small molecule, Carbazole Blue (CB), that...
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Open AccessHi-C profiling of cancer spheroids identifies 3D-growth-specific chromatin interactions in breast cancer endocrine resistance
Organoids or spheroids have emerged as a physiologically relevant in vitro preclinical model to study patient-specific diseases. A recent study used spheroids of MCF10 cells to model breast cancer progression ...
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Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer and Its Management
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Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA)–Proposed Standards for Care of Breast Cancer Patients
The Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) was established with an attempt to bring together experts in the field of breast surgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, radiology, pathology, and breast care nurs...
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Overuse of Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy for Primary Breast Cancer
In recent years, there has been a wider use of chemotherapy in the pre-operative setting for breast cancer (i.e., as neo-adjuvant chemotherapy). Most clinicians would agree that neo-adjuvant chemotherapy is ju...
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Breast Cancer Screening: a Paradigm Change Is Needed—the PB Desai Oration
This editorial summarizes the key points of the PB Desai Oration, delivered by the author at the National Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in Kolkata, India, on September 21, 2019.
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In Memoriam: Dr. Bernard Fisher
Very few individuals have so profoundly influenced the field of surgical oncology as has Dr. Bernard Fisher, who died on October 16, 2019, at the age of 101. Fisher is widely known for his work on the treatmen...
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Surgery for Benign Breast Disorders
Benign non-neoplastic conditions of the breast show a wide variety of proliferative and regressive changes in the breast parenchyma, epithelial elements, and stroma. Some of these form distinct entities, but t...
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Historical Overview of Breast Surgery
Contemporary treatment of breast cancer is complex and involves multimodalities such as surgery, radiotherapy, and combinatorial systemic therapies. Despite a rising incidence, mortality rates from breast canc...
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Anatomy
The breasts are skin appendages that phylogenetically represent modified sweat glands on the anterior thoracic wall. The detailed anatomy and development of the breast have relevance to the operating breast su...
