Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive...

Abstract

Lumpectomy followed by breast irradiation continues to be appropriate therapy for women with breast cancer, provided that the margins of resected specimens are free of tumor and an acceptable cosmetic result can be obtained.

Keywords

LumpectomyMedicineHazard ratioMastectomyCumulative incidenceBreast cancerConfidence intervalTotal MastectomyRadiation therapySurgeryIncidence (geometry)GynecologyCancerInternal medicineTransplantation

MeSH Terms

Breast NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansIncidenceMastectomyRadicalMastectomySegmentalNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm RecurrenceLocalNeoplasmsSecond PrimaryRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSurvival Analysis

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Year: 2002
Type: article
Volume: 347
Issue: 16
Pages: 1233-1241
Citations: 6081
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                                    Bernard Fisher, 
                                
                                    Stewart Anderson, 
                                
                                    John Bryant
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2002). 
                            Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive Breast Cancer. 
                            New England Journal of Medicine
                            , 347
                            (16)
                            , 1233-1241.
                            https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa022152
                        

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DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa022152
PMID: 12393820

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