Comparison of treatment outcome between breast-conservation surgery with radiation and total mastectomy without radiation in patients with one to three positive axillary lymph nodes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1446-1452

  Kim, Seung Il ^a   Park, Seho ^a   Park, Hyung Seok ^a   Kim, Yong Bae ^a   Suh, Chang Ok ^a   Park, Byeong Woo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast conservation surgery; N1 disease; Radiation; Survival; Total mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIATION; ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST-CONSERVATION SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HAZARD RATIO; LOCAL RECURRENCE; LOCOREGIONAL RECURRENCE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; N1 DISEASE; NODE-POSITIVE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OVERALL SURVIVAL RATES; RECURRENCE-FREE SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOMES;

BODY FLUIDS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIATION; SURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960095025     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.051     Document Type: Article

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