Management of Inflammatory breast cancer: current concepts

Abstract

International Journal of Case Reports and Images (IJCRI) is an international, peer reviewed, monthly, open access, online journal, publishing high-quality, articles in all areas of basic medical sciences and clinical specialties.Aim of IJCRI is to encourage the publication of new information by providing a platform for reporting of unique, unusual and rare cases which enhance understanding of disease process, its diagnosis, management and clinico-pathologic correlations.

Feasibility of Breast Conserving Surgery in locally Advanced Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoaduvant Therapy

“…A common question raised with respect to performing breast-conserving therapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the volume of breast tissue that should be resected. To evaluate this, Boughey et al studied [4] whether preoperative chemotherapy was able to reduce the volume of tissue excised and the number of breast operations performed and reported that in patients with T2 or T3 tumors, significantly less tissue was resected when patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (P < .004 for volume of tissue resected). At a median followup time of 33 months there were only two cases of ipsilateral breast recurrence, one in the neoadjuvant group, and one in the adjuvant group, leading them to conclude that it is not necessary to excise the entire pre NACT volume of tissue.…”

Feasibility of Breast Conserving Surgery in locally Advanced Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoaduvant Therapy

“…To evaluate this, Boughey et al studied [4] whether preoperative chemotherapy was able to reduce the volume of tissue excised and the number of breast operations performed and reported that in patients with T2 or T3 tumors, significantly less tissue was resected when patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (P < .004 for volume of tissue resected). At a median followup time of 33 months there were only two cases of ipsilateral breast recurrence, one in the neoadjuvant group, and one in the adjuvant group, leading them to conclude that it is not necessary to excise the entire pre NACT volume of tissue.…”