## Abstract Radiation has played a continuous but changing role in the management of breast cancer. At Memorial Hospital, the past 10 years have seen a marked increase in breast conserving therapy, and changing indications for postmastectomy adjuvant radiation.
Conservative therapy for postmastectomy lymphedema
β Scribed by L. Clodius; N. B. Piller
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 698 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-0130
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