Ipsilateral breast tumour relapse: local recurrence versus new primary and the effect of whole breast radiotherapy on the rate of new primaries
Purpose The justification for partial breast radiotherapy after breast conservation surgery assumes that ipsilateral breast tumor relapses (IBTR) outside the index quadrant are mostly new primary (NP) tumors that develop despite radiotherapy. We tested the hypothesis that whole-breast radiotherapy...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011-01-01.
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