Ten-Year Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Radical Mastectomy and Total Mastectomy with or without Radiation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 312, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 674-681

  Fisher, Bernard ^a   Redmond, Carol ^a   Fisher, Edwin R ^a   Bauer, Madeline ^a   Wolmark, Norman ^a   Wickerham, D Lawrence ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a   Montague, Eleanor ^a   Margolese, Richard ^a   Foster, Roger ^a  

^a NSABP Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AXILLARY DISSECTION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RADIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0021956483     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198503143121102     Document Type: Article

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