Systematic Reviews of Surgery for Breast Cancer

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews for the evidence of the effectiveness of surgery as a treatment for breast cancer.

Reviewed April 2012

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Title:   Immediate versus delayed reconstruction following surgery for breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Curative treatment of breast cancer requires surgery, which can involve a mastectomy to remove the entire breast. Breast reconstruction following mastectomy can be carried out either immediately or as a delayed procedure. Immediate reconstruction is car...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Timing of surgery for premenopausal women with breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity and the majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer undergo treatment which includes surgical intervention, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, or both. This review attempted to asce...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Exercise interventions for upper-limb dysfunction due to breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know about the effect of exercise on arm and shoulder movement problems due to breast cancer. Upper-limb dysfunction following breast cancer surgery: The use of upper-limb ROM, stretching and strengt...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   It is not yet clear whether adding chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) to another treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer in the same area improves survival
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Early breast cancer can be removed by surgery, and for most women the chance of the cancer returning (recurrence) is small. In some women however, the cancer returns in the same area. Chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) can be used together with other trea...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Post-operative radiotherapy for ductal carcinoma in situ
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is characterised by the development of cancerous cells in the milk ducts of the breast and is commonly diagnosed by mammography screening. Surgical removal of the breast offers a good prognosis, however many women and cli...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Surgery versus primary endocrine therapy for elderly women with operable primary breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While younger women with early-stage breast cancer almost invariably are treated with surgery plus endocrine therapy, (which deprives the cancer of hormones which induce growth of the cancer), women over the age of 70yrs are frequently offered endocrine...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   IOTR - the use of intraoperative radiotherapy for the treatment of patients with early breast cancer
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is radiotherapy that is administered at the same time as breast conserving surgery directly to the tumour bed.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   A meta-analysis of clinical trials comparing taxane containing chemotherapy with non-taxane containing chemotherapy for women following surgery for early breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast cancer is by far the most frequent cancer experienced by women (23% of all cancers in women), with an estimated 1.15 million new cases and over 411,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2002. Early breast cancer is cancer that has not spread beyond th...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Women should be aware of their true risk of developing breast cancer and the limitations of current evidence when considering prophylactic mastectomy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Surgically removing both breasts to prevent breast cancer (bilateral prophylactic mastectomy or BPM) may reduce the incidence of breast cancer and improve survival in women with high breast cancer risk, but the studies reviewed have methodological limit...
Date:   Jun 2006
Title:   Preoperative chemotherapy for women with operable breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chemotherapy for patients with early stage breast cancer has been shown to improve survival. Traditionally, this therapy is given once the patient has undergone surgery. Since the early 1980's, interest has risen in administrating chemotherapy before su...
Date:   Aug 2005

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