[Results of conservative therapy in early breast carcinoma]

The authors present a review on the development of views on breast cancer from the beginning of the century and contemporary views on the problem, its solution world-wide and in the Czech Republic. They base on their own group of 475 patients of 1991-1998, they analyze the development of possible solutions of early breast cancer and their view on the discussed problem. With regard to favourable results they advocate progressive breast preserving operations associated with postoperative radiotherapy and the use of the method of sentinel nodes.