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EFFICACY OF TAMOXIFEN AS THE PRIMARY TREATMENT OF OPERABLE BREAST CANCER IN THE HIGH RISK PATIENT
Author(s) -
Falk G. L.,
Gwynnejones D.,
Gray J. G.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01628.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tamoxifen , breast cancer , oncology , primary treatment , gynecology , primary (astronomy) , cancer , physics , astronomy
An audit of 43 breast cancer patients, considered to be or high operative risk and treated only with tamoxifen, was performed. All cases were potentially operable. Good outcome was obtained in only one‐third of patients. Salvage surgery had no operative mortality.