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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Breast Care

Breast Care current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Abnormal breast pathology after breast reduction surgery: a case-series and a 10-year retrospective chart review

Adjuvant chemotherapy in early triple-negative breast cancer (T1a-c N0M0): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Biomarkers of response and resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in breast cancer

Breast cancer in working-age men: a population-based investigation of global, regional, and national disease burdens between 1990 and 2021

Breast cancer overall survival, annual risks of death, and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): 7-year follow-up of a prospective cohort study

Creating a standard for evaluation of symptoms of depression and anxiety in women undergoing reduction mammaplasty: validation and reliability of HADS

The effect of sarcopenia on postoperative complications in autologous breast reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elinzanetant for vasomotor symptoms from endocrine therapy for breast cancer

Empowering early detection: a pioneering breast health training course for healthcare workers in Malawi

First mammography screening participation and breast cancer incidence and mortality in the subsequent 25 years: population based cohort study

A free-style approach to selection of locoregional perforator flaps for unilateral breast restoration

High-risk breast cancer screening with MRI: diagnostic performance of a local scoring system

Knowledge of palliative care in men and women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer

Long-term follow-up after DIEP flap breast reconstruction: quality of life with a focus on donor-site morbidity

A meta-analysis: anti-inflammatory medicinal plants for age-related menopause-like symptoms and psychological problems in breast cancer and healthy perimenopausal women

Overweight and risk of recurrence following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer

A preclinical evaluation of the response of repairing the DNA of MCF7 breast cancer cells after exposure to probiotic bacteria

Recent trends in nipple reconstruction – a case series and social media analysis of patient preferences

Second cancers in 475 000 women with early invasive breast cancer diagnosed in England during 1993-2016: population based observational cohort study

Thermal versus tactile sensory recovery following alloplastic and neurotized autologous breast reconstruction

Utilization and fertility preservation outcomes in women undergoing embryo cryopreservation before breast cancer treatment: a meta-analysis

The value of machine learning based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and biopsy whole-slide image to predict pathological complete response to breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a two-centre study

Venous outflow augmentation protects against fat necrosis in the DIEP flap breast reconstruction: a retrospective analysis

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Sep); BJOG (Sep); BMC Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Sep); BMJ (Aug-Sep); BMJ Global Health (Sep); Breast, The (Oct); Clinical Breast Cancer (Oct); Clinical Radiology (Aug); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Sep-Oct); Lancet Global Health (Oct); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug); NEJM (Aug)

September 2025

Alzheimer disease in breast cancer survivors

Anesthetic agents as therapeutic tools in breast cancer: insights into cancer progression and recurrence

Appropriateness of acute breast symptom recommendations provided by ChatGPT

Association between travel burden and surgical timeliness for women with breast cancer in Georgia

The association of race and ethnicity with risk-reducing mastectomies in patients with non-BRCA mutations

Breast cancer clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes in women living with HIV/AIDS globally: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Breast cancer treatment delay and the Hispanic paradox: a SEER database analysis

Breast tumor-bed biopsy for pathological complete response prediction: the NRG-BR005 nonrandomized clinical trial

Cancer outcomes in women without upfront surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ: observational cohort study

Characterization of post-mastectomy pain syndrome in breast cancer patients undergoing subsequent reconstruction: a scoping review

Characterizing cannabidiol use in a breast cancer population

Development and validation of an ultrasound and clinicopathological features-based nomogram for predicting non-sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients: a single-center observational study

Dr. Etta Pisano: pioneering radiologist and advocate for women's health

Early breast cancer treatment and cardiac events: a systematic review

Effects of AKT inhibitors for PIK3CA/AKT1/PTEN-altered advanced or metastatic breast cancer: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Efficacy of closed-incision negative pressure wound therapy in abdominal-based autologous breast reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Evolution and practice pattern in microsurgical breast reconstruction—a European multicenter study

Extending the duration of endocrine treatment for early breast cancer: patient-level meta-analysis of 12 randomised trials of aromatase inhibitors in 22 031 postmenopausal women already treated with at least 5 years of endocrine therapy

First experience from 200 cases with a new breast tissue expander for multi-stage pre-pectoral breast reconstruction after mastectomy

First-line camizestrant for emerging ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer

Forequarter amputation for breast cancer: systematic review and survival analysis

Go Pre or Stay Sub? Immediate implant-based breast reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Harnessing artificial intelligence for precision diagnosis and treatment of triple negative breast cancer

Identifying resource needs of patients with breast cancer by examining alignment of Reddit post content with BREAST-Q domains

Mammography screening outcomes for women screened by standard versus high resolution digital breast tomosynthesis

Maternal mastitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome risk from breastfeeding children with scarlet fever: case report and literature review

Metabolomics biomarkers for breast cancer: an updated perspective

New mammography tools — the need for clinically meaningful assessment standards

Novel investigational modalities for clinical breast imaging: a narrative review

Older age may predict expedited care for motivated breast reconstruction patients

Overall survival with inavolisib in PIK3CA-mutated advanced breast cancer

Patient reported outcomes in breast cancer: a plea for the silent and forgotten

Perioperative considerations of breast cancer neoadjuvant treatments

Phyllodes tumor of the breast: race-related differences in presentation, pathology and prognosis

Predicting complications in breast reconstruction: external validation of a machine learning model

Preliminary data on the oncological safety of autologous fat transfer (AFT) for total breast reconstruction from the BREAST trial

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

Review and reflections on live AI mammographic screen reading in a large UK NHS breast screening unit

A review of explainable AI techniques and their evaluation in mammography for breast cancer screening

Social support holds protective value in breast reconstruction

Time to final breast reconstruction: effect on quality of life and associated factors

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (Jun-Sep); BMJ, The (Jul); Clinical Breast Cancer (Jul-Aug); Clinical Imaging (Jul-Sep); Clinical Radiology (Jun); JAMA Network Open (Jun); JAMA Surgery (Jul); Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (Jun); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Jul-Aug); Lancet, The (Aug); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Aug); Nature (Jul); NEJM (Jul-Aug)

July 2025

The assessment of premature thelarche

Breast cancer screening in women with multiple sclerosis: a mixed-methods study

Breast non-mass enhancement lesions on contrast-enhanced mammography: modified breast image reporting and data system classification

Capivasertib with fulvestrant for treating hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative advanced breast cancer after endocrine treatment (new NICE guideline TA1063)

Comparing international revision incidence of commonly used breast implants

Comparison of supplemental breast cancer imaging techniques—interim results from the BRAID RCT

The current state of tranexamic acid in mastectomy and breast reconstruction

The effect of race and area deprivation on symptom profiles over the course of early-stage breast cancer

Exploring breast implant illness and its comorbid conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Inflammatory breast cancer response to modern neoadjuvant chemotherapy: tumor response and survival outcomes

Intraoperative ultrasound-guided breast-conserving surgery: a performance analysis on the basis of novel cancer lesion classification and patients' cosmetic satisfaction

Neoadjuvant PARP inhibitor scheduling in BRCA1 and BRCA2 related breast cancer (PARTNER)

Prognostic factors for return to work in breast cancer survivors (new Cochrane prognosis review)

Regional analgesia techniques for postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Review of mammography screening guidelines of the 5 largest global economies

The safety of simultaneous versus delayed contralateral breast symmetrization: systematic review and meta-analysis

Salvage of nipple-areolar complex venous congestion following reduction mammaplasty with full-coverage incisional negative pressure wound therapy

Skin changes of the female breast: a guide to assessment and management

Training medical students in breast health

Two-stage prepectoral breast reconstruction: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (May); Australian Journal of General Practice (May); Clinical Imaging (Apr); Clinical Radiology (Apr); Clinical Teacher, The (Jun); Cochrane Library (May-Jun); European Journal of Neurology (May); JAMA Surgery (Apr); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Jun); Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Apr); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (May-Jun); Lancet, The (May); Nature Communications (May); NICE website (May-Jun); Surgery 0039-6060 (Apr)

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