Treatment outcome after tangential radiation therapy without axillary dissection in patients with early-stage breast cancer and clinically negative axillary nodes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 915-920

  Wong, Julia S ^a,f   Recht, Abram ^a   Beard, Clair J ^a   Busse, Paul M ^a   Cady, Blake ^b   Chaffey, John T ^a   Come, Steven ^b   Fam, Salwa ^c   Kaelin, Carolyn ^d,e   Lingos, Tatiana I ^a   Nixon, Asa J ^a   Shulman, Lawrence N ^d   Troyan, Susan ^b   Silver, Barbara ^a   Harris, Jay R ^a  

^a HARVARD RADIATION ONCOLOGY PROGRAM   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Metro West Medical Center   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast neoplasms; Radiotherapy; Regional nodal failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; TAMOXIFEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030667336     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00456-2     Document Type: Article

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