Issue 1 (2009)

The notions of local, regional and locoregional recurrences of the mammary gland cancer are singled out in modern literature. A confusion of the recurrence notions leads to difficulties not only in detection of their appearance rate and a clinicomorphological characteristic, but in assessment of the disease treatment and prognosis possibilities. The world data of the recurrence appearance clinicomorphological risk factors such as a primary tumor size, the regional lymph node lesion, the patient age, a presence of multiple centers and peritumoral tumor invasion, a use of postoperative radial therapy and etc. is systematized in the review. The data of the tumor receptor status and genetic factor role in development of the mammary gland local recurrences is presented. A clinicomorphological characteristic of the local recurrences considering a localization, number of tumoral nodes, a tumor shift, a presence of calcinates and such complications as a tumor ulceration or decomposition, a germination of neighboring structures and infection is given. The different types of the local recurrence treatment (surgical, medicinal, radial method and their combinations) and a site of local recurrence in prognosis of disease in patients with a mammary gland cancer are studied.