mastology

The formal study of breast disease.

mastology

(măs-tŏl′ō-jē) [″ + logos, word, reason]

The branch of medicine concerned with study of the breast.

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The role of complementary and alternative medicine in the management of early breast cancer: Recommendations of the European Society of Mastology (EUSOMA).

Mind-body medicine in oncology: 'mind matters.'--David Spiegel

Many expert panels (including ASCO, European Society of Medical Oncology, and European Society of Mastology) therefore recommend that tumor markers should not be used in the routine surveillance of patients after primary treatment for breast cancer (9, 41-43).

Serum tumor markers in breast cancer: are they of clinical value?

Head (2), and Xianpeng Jiang (2), Delta State University (1), Cleveland, MS 38733, and The Elliott-Haley-Head Mastology Research and Treatment Center (2), Baton Rouge, LA 70816

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For example, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European Society of Medical Oncology and the European Society of Mastology (EUSOMA) recommend against the use of markers in the routine surveillance of patients following primary treatment for breast cancer [5,15-17].

Serum markers in breast cancer: clinical usefulness and possible improvements

Because of the striking difference in response of steroid receptor-positive and -negative breast cancers to hormone therapy, multiple expert panels, including an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Expert Panel, the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (United States), a National Institutes of Health panel, the European Group on Tumor Markers, and the European Society of Mastology have recommended that ER (i.e., ERa) and PR be assayed on all primary breast cancers (22-26).

Predictive markers in breast and other cancers: a review

For the other age groups, a triennial CBE for women up to 39 years and annual CBE and biannual MMG for those older than 70 years, as suggested by the Brazilian Society of Mastology (15,16).

Breast cancer screening practice and associated factors: Women's Health Survey in Uberaba MG Brazil, 2014

The Brazilian Society of Mastology (49) argues that omission of radiotherapy, although it does not interfere in the survival time of the patient, increases the risk of occurrence of local relapse, but that the benefit of this treatment may be less for elderly women, since they are a population with low risk of this type of relapse.

Breast cancer: diagnosis-to-treatment waiting times for elderly women at a reference hospital of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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