Review on internal mammary node irradiation

Breast

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 57-60

  Morgan, D A L ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029875141     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9776(96)90122-8     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Paterson R, Russell M H. Clinical trials in malignant disease. Part III - breast cancer: evaluation of postoperative radiotherapy. J Fac Radiol (London) 1959; 10: 175-180.
2. Cuzick J, Stewart H, Rutqvist L et al. Cause-specific mortality in long-term survivors of breast cancer who participated in trials of radiotherapy. J Clin Oncol 1994; 12: 447-453.
3. Rutqvist L E, Lax I, Fornander T, Johansson H. Cardiovascular mortality in a randomised trial of adjuvant radiation therapy versus surgery alone in primary breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1992; 22: 887-896.
4. Fletcher G H, Montague E D. Does adequate irradiation of the internal mammary chain and supraclavicular nodes improve survival rates? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1978; 4: 481-492.
5. Handley R S, Thackray A C. Invasion of the internal mammary lymph nodes. BMJ 1954; 1: 61-63.
6. Lacour J, Le M, Caceres E, Koszarowski T, Veronisi U, Hill C. Radical mastectomy versus radical mastectomy plus internal mammary dissection: 10-year results of an international cooperative trial in breast cancer. Cancer 1983; 51: 1941-1943.
7. Meier P, Ferguson D J, Karrison T. A controlled trial of extended radical mastectomy. Cancer 1985; 55: 880-891.
8. Le M G, Arrigada R, de Vathaire F et al. Can internal mammary chain treatment decrease the risk of death for patients with medial breast cancers and positive axillary nodes? Cancer 1990; 66: 2313-2318.
9. Auquier A, Rutqvist L E, Høst H, Rotstein S, Arriagada R. Postmastectomy megavoltage radiotherapy: the Oslo and Stockholm trials. Eur J Cancer 1992; 28: 433-437.
10. Høst H, Brennhovd I O, Loeb M. Postoperative radiotherapy in breast cancer - long-term results from the Oslo study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1986; 12: 727-732.
11. Wallgren A, Arner O. Bergström J et al. The value of preoperative radiotherapy in operable mammary carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1980; 6: 287-290.
12. Strender L E, Wallgren A, Arndt J et al. Adjuvant radiotherapy in operable breast cancer: correlation between dose in internal mammary nodes and prognosis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1981; 7: 1319-1325.
13. Wallgren A, Arner O, Bergström J et al. Radiation therapy in operable breast cancer: results from the Stockholm trial on adjuvant radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1986; 12: 533-537.
14. Overgaard M, Christensen J J, Johansen H et al. Evaluation of radiotherapy in high-risk breast cancer patients: report from the Danish Cooperative Group (DBCG82) trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1990; 19: 1121-1124.
15. Ragaz J, Jackson S M, Plenderleith I H et al. Can adjuvant radiotherapy improve the overall survival of breast cancer patients in the presence of adjuvant chemotherapy? Ten-year analysis of the British Columbia randomized trial. Proceedings of ASCO 1993; 12: 60.
16. Griem K L, Henderson I C, Gelman R et al. The 5-year results of a randomized trial of adjuvant radiation therapy after chemotherapy in breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy. J Clin Oncol 1987; 5: 1546-1555.
17. Cuzick J, Stewart H, Peto R et al. Overview of randomized trials of postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer. Cancer Treat Rep 1987; 71: 15-29.
18. Fuller S A, Haybittle J L, Smith R E A, Dobbs H J. Cardiac doses in postoperative breast irradiation. Radiother Oncol 1992; 25: 19-24.
19. Marks L B, Hebert M E, Bentel G, Spencer D P, Sherouse G W, Prosnitz L R. To treat or not to treat the internal mammary nodes: a possible compromise. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1994; 29: 903-909.
20. Fisher B, Wickerham D L, Deutsch M, Anderson S, Redmond C, Fisher E R. Breast tumour recurrences following lumpectomy with and without breast irradiation: an overview of recent NSABP findings. Semin Surg Oncol 1992; 8: 153-160.
21. Houghton J, Baum M, Haybittle J L. Role of radiotherapy following total mastectomy in patients with early breast cancer. World J Surg 1994; 18: 117-122.