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- Title
Effectiveness of radiation for prevention of mastectomy in older breast cancer patients treated with conservative surgery.
- Authors
Albert, Jeffrey M; Pan, I-Wen; Shih, Ya-Chen Tina; Jiang, Jing; Buchholz, Thomas A; Giordano, Sharon H; Smith, Benjamin D
- Abstract
A recent clinical trial concluded that radiation therapy (RT) does not lower the risk of mastectomy and, thus, may be omitted in older women with stage I, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer who undergo conservative surgery (CS). However, it is not known whether this finding applies to patients outside of clinical trials. Accordingly, we used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare observational cohort to determine the effect of RT on the risk of mastectomy among older women with stage I, ER-positive breast cancer.
- Publication
Cancer, 2012, Vol 118, Issue 19, p4642
- ISSN
1097-0142
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1002/cncr.27457