Local control of operable breast cancer after radiotherapy alone
β Scribed by Van Limbergen, E.; Van der Schueren, E.; Van den Bogaert, W.; Van Wing, J.
- Book ID
- 123232536
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Weight
- 823 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-5379
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67 patients with tumors 3 cm or less and with negative axilla, who had lumpectomy and radiotherapy, and 122 patients with larger tumors or clinically positive axilla, who had radical radiotherapy without prior lumpectomy, were evaluated at five years to determine the optimum dose for local control.
There is a long and detailed history of radiation therapy as an adjuvant to surgery in operable breast cancer. The results of a large number of randomized clinical trials will be reviewed. They can be summarized by saying that although the trials show a reduction in local-regional failure with the u