Education for breast self-examination, clinical examination, and fine needle aspiration biopsy was carried out in 1915 women, aged 16 to 74 at 3 communes (ThÞnh §¸n, Trung Thµnh, T©n Thanh) in Th¸i Nguyªn City. Results indicated that: breast cancer was detected in 0.1% of cases while other breast diseases were found in 4.7% of cases. Breast self-examination in very helpful in the diagnosis of breast diseases. The researchers recommended that people need to be educated how to self-examine their breast in order to reveal breast cancer and other breast diseases.
Breast Neoplasms ; breast ; breast diseases

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast*

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Breast ; Breast Neoplasms ; Progesterone

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Mammography

In the radiation therapy for breast cancer patients, wedge shaped compensators are essentially used to achieve appropriate dose distribution because of thickness difference according to breast shapes. Tangential irradiation technique has usually been applied to radiation therapy for breast cancer patients treated with breast conservative surgery. When a primary beam is incident on wedge shaped compensators from medial direction in tangential irradiation technique, low energy scattered radiation is generated and gives additional dose to the breast surface. As a method to reduced additional dose to breast surface, the use of virtual wedge shaped compensator is possible. Eclipse radiation treatment planning (RTP) systems installed at our institution have virtual wedge shaped compensator for radiation therapy treatment planning. The dose distributions of 15, 30, 45, 60 degree physical wedges and virtual wedges were measured and compared. Results showed that there was no significant differences in symmetry of 10 x 10 field among various wedge angles. When the transmission factor was compared, transmission factor increased linearly as the wedge angle increased. These results indicates that the application of virtual wedge in clinical use is appropriate.
Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Humans

This article was initially published on the Journal of Breast Cancer with a misspelled name of the second author.
Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; RNA*

Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Consensus*

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast*

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast*

The quantification of markers of breast cancer in healthy people (26 people for CA 15-3 and 28 people for CEA) by IRMA has shown that the serum concentration of CA15-3 and CEA was 19.12+/- 15.44 u/ml and 4.19 +/- 2.35 ng/ml, respectively. The medium (4.48), mininum (0.00) and maxinum (8.37) ng/ml. These results can be used to compared with markers in patients with breast cancer. There was no difference of these between men and women.
Breast Neoplasms ; breast