Five-Year Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy and Segmental Mastectomy with or without Radiation in the Treatment of Breast Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 312, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 665-673

  Fisher, Bernard ^a   Bauer, Madeline ^a   Margolese, Richard ^a   Poisson, Roger ^a   Pilch, Yosef ^a   Redmond, Carol ^a   Fisher, Edwin ^a   Wolmark, Norman ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Montague, Eleanor ^a   Saffer, Elizabeth ^a   Wickerham, Lawrence ^a   Lerner, Harvey ^a   Glass, Andrew ^a   Shibata, Henry ^a   Deckers, Peter ^a   Ketcham, Alfred ^a   Oishi, Robert ^a   Russell, Ian ^a  

^a NSABP Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; AXILLARY DISSECTION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0021923669     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198503143121101     Document Type: Article

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