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    Welcome to the inaugural episode of Simply the Breast! We’re excited to bring you this educational podcast from the breast surgeons at the University of Toronto. In our first two episodes we talk everything Royal College with Dr. Ralph George, associate professor of general surgery at the University of Toronto and medical director of the CIBC breast center at St. Michael’s Hospital and perhaps…

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    Objective To compare the survival rates of women with BRCA associated breast cancer who did and did not undergo mastectomy of the contralateral breast. Design Retrospective analysis. Setting 12 cancer genetics clinics. Participants 390 women with a family history of stage I or II breast cancer who were carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and initially treated with unilateral or bilateral…

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    • @AndreaLMerrill @AnnSurgOncol @spshubeck This paper goes hand in hand with this one I often reference as well… showing survival benefit after 20 years with mastectomy with Brca carriers with breast cancer … from metcalfe et Al bmj 2014 https://t.co/MMpqOfrcz1

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    This cohort study uses data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 18 database to compare rates of survival among women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who were treated with radiotherapy after lumpectomy vs lumpectomy or mastectomy alone.

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    • @AndreaLMerrill @Chatterjeeonco1 @AnnSurgOncol My colleagues have also shown a survival benefit for radiation in Dcis as well… radiation might have a systemic / abscopal effect #ASOchat https://t.co/Jla5y2tKl2