Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive Breast Cancer
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Authors
Bernard Fisher
Bernard Fisher•Melvin Deutsch•Norman Wolmark
Published
October 17, 2002
Abstract
In 1976, we initiated a randomized trial to determine whether lumpectomy with or without radiation therapy was as effective as total mastectomy for the treatment of invasive breast cancer.
