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

Breast Care current awareness bulletin

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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)

May 2025

Antibody-drug conjugates in elderly patients with breast cancer

Breast cancers with intermediate estrogen receptor expression: characteristics, prognosis and treatment

Breast reconstructive surgery: a systematic literature review of adjustable expander implant in one stage breast reconstruction

Climate therapy: sustainability solutions for breast cancer care in the Anthropocene era

Diagnostic delay in women with cancer: what do we know and which factors contribute?

Experiences and preferences about information on treatment-related side effects among patients with early breast cancer

Factors contributing to patient-reported satisfaction with breast augmentation six months postoperatively

Health information on breast cancer surgery on YouTube

The impact of adverse childhood experiences on pain and subjective cognitive decline in patients treated for localized breast cancer: the mediating role of sense of coherence, sense of danger and psychosocial distress and danger

Incidence and temporal patterns of true recurrences and second primaries in women with breast cancer: a 10-year competing risk-adjusted analysis

Local recurrence and survival outcomes of multifocal/multicentric breast cancer after breast conserving therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Low dose tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention: a real-world experience

Multimodal data integration in early-stage breast cancer

A new method of measuring temperature discrimination of the breast, and what to expect in the preoperative breast patient

Optimising breastfeeding success for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) through antenatal education: an integrative literature review

Patient-reported upper extremity impairment following mastectomy with breast reconstruction: a systematic review

Predictors of seroma after breast reduction: when should drains be considered?

Side-effects in women treated with adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer

Single assessment numeric evaluation score as a simplified measure of patient satisfaction following breast reconstruction

Universal genetic counseling and testing for black women: a risk-stratified approach to addressing breast cancer disparities

Unveiling inequities: racial disparities in risk-reducing mastectomy for breast cancer prevention

'We've ticked the boxes': a qualitative study of women's experiences receiving antenatal breastfeeding education

Sources

Breast, The (Apr); Breastfeeding Review (Mar); Clinical Breast Cancer (Apr); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Apr)

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