Do all patients require radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery?

Cancers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 740-751

  Skandarajah, Anita R ^a   Bruce Mann, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast conservative therapy; Ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 79952269413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers2020740     Document Type: Review

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