Breast Cancer
Time between surgery and radiotherapy affected local recurrence
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, August 29th, 2005
According to recent research from France, "RT after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) has produced significant reductions in ipsilateral breast carcinoma (BC) recurrence. It was shown previously that a delay in the initiation of RT resulted in a higher LR rate."
"In the current retrospective analysis, the authors investigated whether the RT-adjuvant therapy sequence modified local-disease-free survival (L-DFS) after BCS in patients with early-stage, lymph node-positive BC," explained M. Benchalal and colleagues, Center Eugene Marquis.
"Among 7 French...
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