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Interim results from a European clinical trial, RESTORE 2, demonstrate that cell-enriched breast reconstruction achieved a high rate of patient and physician satisfaction and improvements in overall breast deformity in lumpectomy patients. These results are based on six-month follow up from the firs more

A new study underway in Japan will examine the effect of adult stem and regenerative cells derived from adipose tissue in breast augmentation. In this investigational procedure, a patient's breast is augmented with her own liposuctioned fat, which has been combined and enhanced with her own adipose- more

As the breast cancer therapeutics market moves into an era of personalised medicine, high growth is anticipated within the biologics sector with more products being integrated into an adjuvant setting or used as preventative measures. Current treatment regimes have harsh side effects and only prolon more

In patients with early breast cancer, personal and tumour characteristics other than family history are increasingly used to prompt genetic testing to guide women’s cancer management (treatment-focused genetic testing, ‘TFGT’). Women without a known strong family history of breast and/or ovarian may more

Oncoplastic surgery provides breast cancer patients with greater aesthetic satisfaction without compromising disease-free survival or overall survival rate. Large volume displacement oncoplastic surgical techniques have become increasingly popular as a strategy for improving aesthetic outcomes and e more

by An De Groef, Marijke Van Kampen, Nele Vervloesem, Sophie De Geyter, Evi Dieltjens, Marie-Rose Christiaens, Patrick Neven, Inge Geraerts, Nele Devoogdt Purpose To develop a tool to evaluate myofascial adhesions objectively in patients with breast cancer and to investigate its interrater reliabi more