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Vinh-Hung, Vincent, Verschraegen, Claire, Royce, Melanie, van de Steene, Jan, Tan, Patricia, Cserni, Gábor, Storme, Guy, and Vlastos, Georges
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BREAST cancer , *ONCOLOGIC surgery , *RADIOTHERAPY , *MEDICAL radiology , *ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS , *DISEASES in women - Abstract
Responds to a comment on the authors' article "Breast-conserving surgery with and without radiotherapy: pooled-analysis for risks of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and mortality" published in the "Journal of the National Cancer Institute" in 2004. Welcome opportunity to analyze additional data on older patients; Well-established link between age and survival in breast cancer; Greater risk of death in older postmenopausal patients that younger postmenopausal patients.
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- 2004
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