Postoperative Radiation for Women with Cancer of the Breast and Positive Axillary Lymph Nodes

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Abstract
IT is unfortunate that arguments about the continuing use of postoperative radiation therapy in women with breast cancer and positive findings in the axillary nodes have not been widely discussed in this country. The controversy has generally been confined to specialty journals. A report of a recent National Cancer Institute consensus-development conference on the treatment of primary breast cancer delicately avoided the issue, and a recent review1 of the state of knowledge of cancer of the breast presented many pertinent data but yielded no conclusions about the value of postoperative radiation. However, a group of physicians at the National Cancer . . .