Classifying local disease recurrences af
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Eugene Huang; Thomas A. Buchholz; Funda Meric; Savitri Krishnamurthy; Nadeem Q.
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND To distinguish true local recurrences (TR) from new primary tumors (NP) and to assess whether this distinction has prognostic value in patients who develop ipsilateral breast tumor recurrences (IBTR) after breast‐conserving surgery and radiotherapy. ## METHODS Between 1