[Late results in 170 patients operated on for breast cancer]

The authors investigated the late results, or survival at 5 years after the intervention, in 170 patients operated for breast cancer. The total number of survivors at 5 years was of 71 patients, of which 78 belonged to stages I and II, and only 3 to stage III. The authors present their personal attitude for such cases, and stress some of the difficulties encountered in the application of complex therapy. Of the late complications noted, which totalled 58 cases, the authors mention generalized carcinomatosis in 17 patients, pleuro-pulmonary metastases in 14 patients and 11 cases of chronic oedema of the arm, or the so-called "thick arm after Halstead operation".