Breast Cancer
Findings from E.S. Wai et al in Breast Cancer Reported
Published in Cancer Weekly, February 22nd, 2011
2011 FEB 22 -- In this recent study, researchers in Victoria, Canada conducted a study "To examine use of and outcomes from adjuvant locoregional radiotherapy (LRRT) after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for women with breast cancer with 1-3 positive nodes (1-3 N+) before and after the 1997 publication of radomised trial evidence of a survival advantage from post-mastectomy LRRT. Data were analysed for 2768 women diagnosed between 1989 and 2005 and referred to the British Columbia Cancer Agency with newly diagnosed pT1-3 breast cancer with 1-3 N+, treated with BCS and RT."
"LRRT use was analysed over time. Ten-year Kaplan-Meier locoregional control (LRC),...
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