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Inadequate Local Breast Cancer Therapy Seen as Growing Problem
Inadequate Local Breast Cancer Therapy Is a Problem
B. Jancin
20071117
2007 Dec 17
Elsevier Global Medical News
Inadequate Local Breast Cancer Therapy Seen as Growing Problem
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2007 Dec 17, B. Jancin
SAN ANTONIO (EGMN) - The use of radiotherapy following breast-conserving surgery for invasive cancer is declining in the United States - and that's a trend spelling trouble, Beth A. Virnig, Ph.D., asserted at a breast cancer symposium sponsored by the Cancer Therapy and Research Center.Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) without radiotherapy constitutes a failure to provide adequate local tumor control. Some prominent epidemiologists predict this will lead to increased late mortality, although that prediction...