Conservative Surgery for Early Breast Cancer

نویسندگان

  • R. E. May
  • D. A. Gillatt
  • Sally Goodman
  • Elizabeth Whipp
  • R. Laing
چکیده

Wide local excision followed by radiotherapy was offered as an alternative to mastectomy to 93 women on 96 occasions. Complications attributable to the surgery occurred in 4 per cent whilst 37.5 per cent developed complications secondary to the radiotherapy. The complications were generally of a mild nature. Nine patients (9.3%) have developed regional recurrence and seventeen (17.7%) distant metastases with a mean follow up of 53.4 months.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 104  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1989