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Radiation therapy for operable breast cancer
Author(s) -
Freedman G. M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.23646
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , radiation therapy , mastectomy , adjuvant radiotherapy , cancer , general surgery , oncology , surgery
This review examined the 60 years of progress made in treating breast cancer from the unique perspective of the reader of Cancer , with a specific emphasis on the evolution of radiation therapy, constituting a survey of the published articles in each decade, and the standards of treatment and controversies of their times that they portray, in 3 major areas: radiation as an adjuvant therapy to mastectomy, radiation for internal mammary lymph node treatment, and radiation with breast‐conserving surgery as an alternative to mastectomy. Cancer 2008;113(7 suppl):1779–800. © 2008 American Cancer Society.