Twenty-year follow-up of a randomized trial comparing total mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lumpectomy plus irradiation for the treatment of invasive breast cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1233-1241

  Fisher, Bernard ^a,b   Anderson, Stewart ^a,b   Bryant, John ^a,b   Margolese, Richard G ^a   Deutsch, Melvin ^a,b   Fisher, Edwin R ^a   Jeong, Jong Hyeon ^a,b   Wolmark, Norman ^a  

^a NSABP Foundation Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037126341     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022152     Document Type: Article

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