title: Breast cancer: post-mastectomy radiotherapy reduces recurrence and mortality.
abstract: The recent results of the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Cooperative Group meta-analysis have demonstrated that post-mastectomy radiotherapy reduces breast cancer recurrence and mortality in women with positive axillary lymph nodes—independently from the number of the lymph nodes involved—with no significant effect in patients with node-negative axillary status.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Oncology, European Institute of Oncology and University of Milan, Via Ripamonti 435, Milan 20141, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Orecchia
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000517:prevention & control; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant