1. Radiotherapy after breast-preserving surgery in women with localized cancer of the breast
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Veronesi, Umberto, Luini, Alberto, Del Vecchio, Marcella, Greco, Marco, Galimberti, Viviana, Merson, Mirella, Rilke, Franco, Sacchini, Virgilio, Saccozzi, Roberto, Savio, Tommaso, Zucali, Roberto, Zurrida, Stefano, and Salvadori, Bruno
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Breast cancer -- Care and treatment ,Radiotherapy -- Evaluation ,Lumpectomy -- Evaluation - Abstract
Breast cancer patients who receive radiation therapy after a quadrantectomy may be less likely to have local cancer again than those who do not. A quadrantectomy is a conservative type of surgery used to treat patients with localized breast cancer. Among 567 women with localized breast cancer who had a quadrantectomy combined with dissection of the nodes under the arm, 294 had radiation therapy following surgery and 273 did not. Almost 9% of the patients who did not have radiation therapy had a local cancer recurrence, compared with 0.3% of the women who had both surgery and radiation. Of the women who did not have radiation therapy, women over 55 years old were less likely to have a local recurrence than those who were 55 years old or younger. The two treatment groups had similar four-year survival rates.
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- 1993