Abstract
Some of the local therapies for breast cancer had substantially different effects on the rates of local recurrence--such as the reduced recurrence with the addition of radiotherapy to surgery--but there were no definite differences in overall survival at 10 years.
Keywords
MedicineRandomized controlled trialRadiation therapyBreast cancerMeta-analysisSurgeryCancerOncologyInternal medicine
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- 333
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- 22
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- 1444-1456
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Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group
(1995).
Effects of Radiotherapy and Surgery in Early Breast Cancer — An Overview of the Randomized Trials.
New England Journal of Medicine
, 333
(22)
, 1444-1456.
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199511303332202
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- 10.1056/nejm199511303332202