Breast cancer: The influence of treatment that fails to cure

✍ Scribed by Vincent P. Collins

• Book ID: 101324080
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1956
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 443 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(195611/12)9:6<1177::aid-cncr2820090619>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

TABLE 1 DIFFERENT TREATMENT POLICIES COhIPARISON OF SURVIVAL R 4TF.S FOR Absolute survival rate 5 years 10 years Treatment policy No. % No. % Radical mastectomy* 668 47.9 -33.41. Radical mastectomy with pre-& postoperative radiotherapy1 1042 40.1 154 23.4 Simple mastectomy with radiotherapy § 1606 42.0 226 24.0 +Haagemen, C. D.,j Presbyterian Hospital, New York. ?Personal communication with Dr. C. D. Haagensen indicate that he has an unpublished value of 33.4 per cent for ten-year survivals. fNohrman, B.