Browsing Institute of Population Health Sciences by Subject "Neoplasm Recurrence, Local"
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Hypofractionation: The standard for external beam breast irradiation.
(2023-06)This overview provides the historical perspective of external beam breast hypofractionation over the last 50 years. It highlights the serious harm suffered by patients with breast cancer in the 1970's and 1980's because ... -
Margin status and survival outcomes after breast cancer conservation surgery: prospectively registered systematic review and meta-analysis.
(2022-09-21)OBJECTIVE: To determine if margin involvement is associated with distant recurrence and to determine the required margin to minimise both local recurrence and distant recurrence in early stage invasive breast cancer. DESIGN: ... -
One versus three weeks hypofractionated whole breast radiotherapy for early breast cancer treatment: the FAST-Forward phase III RCT.
(2023-11)BACKGROUND: FAST-Forward aimed to identify a 5-fraction schedule of adjuvant radiotherapy delivered in 1 week that was non-inferior in terms of local cancer control and as safe as the standard 15-fraction regimen after ... -
Ultrasound, CT, MRI, or PET-CT for staging and re-staging of adults with cutaneous melanoma.
(Cochrane Collaboration, 2019-07-01)BACKGROUND: Melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, with the potential to metastasise to other parts of the body via the lymphatic system and the bloodstream. Melanoma accounts for a small percentage ...