Effects of radiotherapy and surgery for early breast cancer/Authors' reply
The paper's conclusion is self-contradictory: the absolute breast cancer mortality at 15 years is reduced from 60.1% to 54.7% (5.4% absolute reduction) after mastectomy in women with node-positive disease and from 35.9% to 30.5% after breast-conserving surgery (5.4% absolute reduction; figure 6...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Lancet (British edition) 2006-05, Vol.367 (9523), p.1652 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The paper's conclusion is self-contradictory: the absolute breast cancer mortality at 15 years is reduced from 60.1% to 54.7% (5.4% absolute reduction) after mastectomy in women with node-positive disease and from 35.9% to 30.5% after breast-conserving surgery (5.4% absolute reduction; figure 6). Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials. |
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ISSN: | 0140-6736 1474-547X |