title: Role of radiation therapy for locally advanced and inflammatory carcinoma of the breast.
abstract: In patients with locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer, irradiation and radical or modified radical mastectomy yield equivalent local-regional control. However, even when combined with modern chemotherapy, at least 30% of patients will suffer local-regional failure when only one local modality is used. Increased local control (to 85%-95%), with fewer complications, can be achieved when surgery and radiotherapy are combined.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Oncology Center, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Fields
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis