Limited Surgery and Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer
- 21 November 1985
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 313 (21), 1365-1368
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198511213132128
Abstract
Over the past five years, there has been increasing support for the use of conservative surgery combined with radiotherapy as primary treatment for women with early breast cancer. This support is based on published reports from both retrospective studies,1 2 3 4 5 which have demonstrated that this approach can provide high levels of local tumor control and good cosmetic results, and prospective randomized clinical trials,6 , 7 which have indicated that the outcome of this approach is comparable to that obtained with mastectomy.Although there is general agreement regarding the conceptual aspects of this approach, there has been little consensus regarding the technical details of . . .Keywords
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