[Prognosis of the bilateral mastocarcinoma (author's transl)]

Between 1970 and 1973, 411 operated patients with mastocarcinomas were post-irradiated according to the stage under high voltage conditions at the Institute of Medical Radiology of the University of Tübingen. At regular intervals, the patients were examined clinically and by means of mammography and other methods of nuclear medicine and radiology in our follow-up department. During a five-year period of observation, 21 patients showed a tumor manifestation in the contralateral breast. These patients have a remarkably unfavourable prognosis. Up to now, only one patient survived five years without symptoms after the therapy of the contralateral mastocarcinoma.