Survival from cancer: local control and radiotherapy.
Adjuvant radiotherapy is considered to be highly effective in maintaining local control but is widely perceived to confer no survival advantage in the management of solid tumours. However, recent adjuvant radiotherapy studies are beginning to show survival improvements in parallel with improvements in loco-regional disease control.
Dodwell
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Yorkshire Regional Centre for Cancer Treatment, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds.
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D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000517:prevention & control; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome