title: Multimodality treatment of locally advanced breast cancer.
abstract: From 1976 to 1985, 61 consecutive patients with locally advanced breast cancer were treated with multimodality therapy. Overall 5-year survival was 30% with a median survival of 36 months. 50% of patients relapsed within 13 months. Other factors such as menopausal status, side of illness (right or left breast), responses to systemic or to local treatment, survival and progression-free survival in responders and non-responders have been analyzed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged