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Canadian news
Cancer a devastating fact for Milton woman. Inside Halton.com. Posted 15 November, 2017.
Greater Victoria resident hopes to bring awareness to rare breast cancers. Coldstream News Gazette. Posted 13 October 2017.
Chest freckles led one woman to discover she had a rare form of breast cancer. Global News. Posted 15 June, 2017.
Doctors' Notes: Black women should be aware of higher breast cancer risk. Toronto Star. Posted 27 February 2017.
Jarvis: 'I have lost so much … and endured so much'. Windsor Star. Posted 6 December 2016.
Winnipeg Folk Festival employee says she survived cancer but lost her job in the process. CBC News. Posted 5 July 2016.
MUHC patient receives Canada's first-ever radiosurgery treatment with the CyberKnife® M6. McGill University Health Centre newsroom. Posted on 24 September 2015.
Former nurse promotes awareness of inflammatory breast cancer. CBC News. Posted 8 August 2006.
The days that will still be mine. Paulson, Jane MD. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 16 June, 1998.
Medical literature
Patient Education & Treatment
Patient education: Locally advanced and inflammatory breast cancer (Beyond the Basics). Taghian MD Phd, Merajver MD PhD. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDateInc.
Inflammatory breast cancer: Clinical features and treatment. Taghian MD PhD, El-Ghamry MD, Merajver MD PhD. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDateInc.
International Consensus on the Clinical Management of Inflammatory Breast Cancer from the Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Program 10th Anniversary Conference. NT, Espinosa Fernandez JR, Cristofanilli M, Overmoyer B, Rea D, Berdichevski F, El-Shinawi M, Bellon J, Le-Petross HT, Lucci A, Babiera G, DeSnyder SM, Teshome M, Chang E, Lim B, Krishnamurthy S, Stauder MC, Parmar S, Mohamed MM, Alexander A, Valero V, Woodward WA. J Cancer 2018; 9(8):1437-1447. doi:10.7150/jca.23969.
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Clinical Practice Guidelines - Breast Cancer. September 2015. See page 66 for IBC medical practice guidelines.
Disease Overview
Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A Panoramic Overview. S, Javadekar MJ, Brad eld P, Murphy T, Witmer DD, Van Golen KL. J Rare Dis Res Treat. (2018) 3(2): 37-43.
Approach to inflammatory breast cancer. Molckovsky, Barbara Fitzgerald, Orit Freedman, Ruth Heisey, Mark Clemons. Canadian Family Physician Jan 2009, 55 (1) 25-31.
MRI vs Mammogram
MRI Features of Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Huong T. Le-Petross, Massimo Cristofanilli, Selin Carkaci, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Edward F. Jackson, Robyn K. Harrell, Brandy J. Reed, and Wei T. Yang. American Journal of Roentgenology 2011 197:4, W769-W776.
IBC & Breast Reconstruction
The majority of IBC medical literature doesn't recommend breast reconstruction surgery until 1-2 years following the completion of treatment (after chemo, surgery and radiation).
The following article presents a different perspective: Immediate breast reconstruction for women having inflammatory breast cancer in the United States. SA, Ng M, Nardello SM, Ruth K, Bleicher RJ. Med. 2018;7:2887-2902.
Prognosis & Survival
Long-term treatment efficacy in primary inflammatory breast cancer by hormonal receptor- and HER2-defined subtypes. Masuda, H et al. Annals of oncology: official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology vol. 25,2 (2013): 384-91 (includes probability of survival tables with respect to patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, underwent definitive surgery, and had evaluable status for ER, PR, and HER2).