Less is more. Breast conservation might be even better than mastectomy in early breast cancer patients.

During the recent years an increase of mastectomy rates in early breast cancer patients has been observed. Nevertheless, several large population-based studies reported a possible improved outcome after breast conserving therapy compared to radical surgery, after all the adjustments. We hereby summarize our opinion on this topic suggesting that these robust and consistent data might challenge the statement that breast conserving therapy is merely not inferior to radical surgery.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Breast

• Publication date

  2017-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.breast.2017.06.004PMID 28644995
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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