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Treatment of Breast Carcinoma in Patients with Clinically Negative Axillary Lymph Nodes Using Radiotherapy Versus Axillary Dissection by Naoko Fujimoto; Atsushi Amemiya; Makoto Kondo; Atsuya Takeda; Naoyuki Shigematsu is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The role of axillary lymph node dissection (AxD) for patients with breast carcinoma who have clinically negative lymph nodes (cN0) and undergo breast‐conserving therapy has been controversial. If patients do not undergo AxD, then it is uncertain whether specific lymph node irradiation should be given. The authors compared the results obtained from patients w ho underwent AxD with the results from patients who received axillary irradiation (AxR) using one of two radiotherapy techniques. ## METHODS Patients with T1–T2cN0 breast carcinoma were treated from 1983 to 2002 with either AxD (80 patients) or AxR (1134 patients received tangential‐field [2‐field] irradiation, and 303 patients received 3‐field irradiation). The median follow‐up was 161 months for the AxD group and 66 months for the AxR group (55 months for patients who received tangential‐field irradiation, and 122 months for patients who received 3‐field irradiation). ## RESULTS One patient in the AxD group and 35 patients in the AxR group had axillary recurrences. The 10‐year cumulative axillary recurrence rates were 1.3% and 4.6% for the AxD group and the AxR group, respectively (__P__ = 0.21). For

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Author

Naoko Fujimoto; Atsushi Amemiya; Makoto Kondo; Atsuya Takeda; Naoyuki Shigematsu

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0008-543X)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)