Selection of treatment regimens for women with potentially curable breast carcinoma

Five-year survival rates for all Iowa breast cancer patients diagnosed in 1969 are substantially better than most published figures. Partly, this is because more Iowa patients came to treatment early before they developed diagnosable metastases. There also, however, were particularly good results for radical mastectomy compared to modified operations and when axillary metastases were present the results were much the best when supervoltage radiation followed the radical operation.