TAFFURELLI M.

Rationale: On October 15th, 2020, the first Surgical National Consensus Conference on neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) was promoted by the Italian Association of Breast Surgeons (ANISC). Method: The Consensus Conference was entirely held online due to anti-Covid-19 restrictions and after an introductory four lectures held by national and...

Background and objectives: We studied a large series of ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion (MIDC) an infrequent disease whose diagnosis and management are not well defined. Methods: 17,431 cases of breast carcinoma were treated between 2011 and 2016 by ten Italian Breast Units. Our analysis included diagnostic and clinic-pathological...

Background: Breast angiosarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasm, which accounts for approximately 2% of all soft tissue sarcomas. Secondary breast angiosarcoma (SBA) may be related to chronic lymphedema after a mastectomy with lymph node dissection (Stewart Treves syndrome) and previous radiotherapy for complications from breast radiation...

Background: The SINODAR-ONE trial is a prospective noninferiority multicenter randomized study aimed at assessing the role of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in patients undergoing either breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy for T1–2 breast cancer (BC) and presenting one or two macrometastatic sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). The endpoints...