Radiation therapy for operable breast cancer

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.