Anees B. Chagpar

TL;DR: Increased financial burden as a result of cancer care costs is the strongest independent predictor of poor quality of life among cancer survivors.

TL;DR: Cavity shaving halved the rates of positive margins and reexcision among patients with partial mastectomy and caused a significantly lower rate of second surgery for margin clearance than did those in the no-shave group.

TL;DR: Physical examination, ultrasonography, and mammography were only moderately useful for predicting residual pathologic tumor size after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the accuracy of physical examination, ultrasonography, and mammography in predicting residual size of breast tumors following neoadjuvant chemotherapy and found that these methods were only moderately useful for predicting residual pathologic tumor size after neoadjvant chemotherapy, with an accuracy of ± 1 cm in 66% of patients by physical examiners, 75% by ultrasonic, and 70% by mammography.

TL;DR: Male gender is associated with a greater incidence of unfavorable primary tumor characteristics without an increased risk for nodal metastasis, and gender is an independent factor affecting survival.