Positive margins after breast-conserving therapy: localization technique or tumor biology?
β Scribed by Fariha Sheikh; Barbara Pockaj; Nabil Wasif; Amylou Dueck; Richard J. Gray
- Book ID
- 116217070
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 202
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9610
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The current study identified determinants of systemic recurrence and diseaseβspecific survival (DSS) in patients with earlyβstage breast carcinoma treated with breastβconserving surgery and radiation therapy (breastβconserving therapy, or BCT). ## METHODS The study popu