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- Title
Clinical experience with irradiation of inflammatory carcinoma of the breast with and without elective chemotherapy.
- Authors
Barker, Jerry L.; Montague, Eleanor D.; Peters, Lester J.; Barker, J L; Montague, E D; Peters, L J
- Abstract
From 1948 to 1972, 69 patients with inflammatory carcinoma of the breast were treated with irradiation alone. Because of a 46% incidence of local-regional failure, twice daily fractionated irradiation was given in 1972 to 11 patients; a decrease in local-regional failures (27%) was achieved. From 1973 through December 1976, preirradiation multidrug chemotherapy was added to the twice daily fractionated irradiation of 31 patients. Analysis of all patients with a minimum two-year follow-up demonstrates that chemotherapy does not improve local-regional control or freedom from disease rates, but does delay appearance of distant metastases.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1980, Vol 45, Issue 4, p625
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(19800215)45:4<625::AID-CNCR2820450402>3.0.CO;2-V