Breast-conserving surgery followed by whole-breast irradiation offers survival benefits over mastectomy without irradiation.
Jana de BonifaceJ FrisellL BergkvistY AnderssonPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2018)
The present data support the superiority of BCS with postoperative radiotherapy over mastectomy without radiotherapy. The axillary recurrence rate differed significantly, and could be one contributing factor in a complex explanatory model.
Keyphrases
- radiation induced
- locally advanced
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- early stage
- breast reconstruction
- radiation therapy
- minimally invasive
- free survival
- sentinel lymph node
- lymph node
- coronary artery bypass
- patients undergoing
- rectal cancer
- electronic health record
- squamous cell carcinoma
- big data
- data analysis
- acute coronary syndrome
- atrial fibrillation
- deep learning
- early breast cancer