Regional radiotherapy versus an axillary lymph node dissection after lumpectomy: a safe alternative for an axillary lymph node dissection in a clinically uninvolved axilla in breast cancer. A case control study with 10 years follow up

BACKGROUND: The standard treatment of the axilla in breast cancer used to be an axillary lymph node dissection. An axillary lymph node dissection is known to give substantial risks of morbidity. In recent years the sentinel node biopsy has become common practice. Future randomized study results will...

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Autores principales: Spruit, Patty H, Siesling, Sabine, Elferink, Marloes AG, Vonk, Ernest JA, Hoekstra, Carel JM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17971196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-2-40

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17971196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-2-40

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