Among women who experience a recurrence after postmastectomy radiation therapy irradiation is not associated with more aggressive local recurrence or reduced survival

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 597-605

  Woodward, Wendy A ^a   Truong, Pauline T ^b,c   Yu, Tse Kuan ^a   Tereffe, Welela ^a   Oh, Julia ^a   Perkins, George ^a   Strom, Eric ^a   Meric Bernstam, Funda ^a   Gonzalez Angulo, Ana Maria ^a   Speers, Caroline ^c   Ragaz, Joseph ^d   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated repopulation; Locoregional recurrence; Postmastectomy; Radiation therapy; Stromal activation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956181777     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-0829-8     Document Type: Article

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