[A retrospective study of recurrent breast cancer following radical mastectomy].
During 10 years from 1974 to 1986, 390 patients with breast cancer underwent radical mastectomy in our consisting of 12 local lymph node, 26 bone metastasis and 20 lung metastasis. A total of 63 (69%) were found within 3 years. The time internal between radical mastectomy and cancer recurrence was significantly correlated with three year and five year survival rates. Radiation therapy was a adequate chemo-endocrine therapy was required in the control of bone metastasis.
Nishimura
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Tanaka
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Koga
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T
Tanaka
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Y
Kakegawa
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T
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D015409:Mastectomy, Radical; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies