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SUBMITTER: Bazan JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4718394 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bazan Jose G JG White Julia R JR
Seminars in radiation oncology 20150829 1
When surgery is the first line of breast cancer treatment, numerous randomized clinical trials and meta-analyses have demonstrated that postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) improves locoregional control and survival for many women with axillary lymph node-positive disease. In contrast, there are no randomized data regarding the use of PMRT in women who receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) first followed by mastectomy. This has led to controversy regarding which patient with breast cancer wi ...[more]