Conservative Surgery for Early Breast Cancer: Results from a District Hospital

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 mil...

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Autores principales: May, R. E., Gillatt, D. A., Goodman, Sally, Whipp, Elizabeth, Laing, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinical Press 1989
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5113497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2790521
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Sumario: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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