PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY FOR STAGE-III CARCINOMA OF BREAST

1 January 1978

journal article
research article

Vol. 147 (4) , 497-502

Abstract

Preoperative radiation therapy apparently does not play a particularly helpful role in the management of patients with the clinical finding of borderline operable carcinoma of the breast and it does not improve the survival rate. Patients within this category of locally advanced disease must be considered to have systemic metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis, as has previously been stressed. Thus, any therapy directed to the regional area for local control must be combined with some form of systemic therapy if there is to be any hope for an increase in survival time.

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