title: Radiation therapy for operable breast cancer: sixty years of progress as seen through the articles published in the journal Cancer.
abstract: This review examined the 60 years of progress made in treating breast cancer from the unique perspective of the reader of Cancer, with a specific emphasis on the evolution of radiation therapy, constituting a survey of the published articles in each decade, and the standards of treatment and controversies of their times that they portray, in 3 major areas: radiation as an adjuvant therapy to mastectomy, radiation for internal mammary lymph node treatment, and radiation with breast-conserving surgery as an alternative to mastectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA19111, USA. Gary.Freedman@FCCC.edu
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Freedman
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015182:Lymphatic Irradiation; D008408:Mastectomy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D015996:Survival Rate