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Radiation therapy for operable breast cancer: sixty years of progress as seen through the articles published in the
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA19111, USA. Gary.Freedman@FCCC.edu
Abstract:
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.
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