Twenty-one patients with histologically proven locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) were treated with a combined modality approach based on primary chemotherapy and radical modified mastectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Surgery was performed by using radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS) techniq
Feasibility of breast-conservation surgery after induction chemotherapy for locally advanced breast carcinoma
โ Scribed by S. Eva Singletary; Marsha D. McNeese; Gabriel N. Hortobagyi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 394 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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