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The effect of systemic adjuvant chemotherapy on local breast recurrence in node positive breast cancer patients treated by lumpectomy without radiation

Abstract

A randomised trial has previously been repeated in which 437 women with node positive breast cancer received either a 12-week chemohormonal regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil, vincristine, prednisone, adriamycin and tamoxifen or 36 weeks of CMFVP. The present analysis concerns the local recurrence rates for the 122 lumpectomy patients who did not receive breast irradiation. The cumulative rate of local breast …

Authors

Levine M; Bramwell V; Abu-Zahra H; Goodyear M; Arnold A; Findlay B; Skillings J; Gent M

Journal

British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 130–132

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 1992

DOI

10.1038/bjc.1992.25

ISSN

0007-0920