Limited Surgery and Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer

Over the past five years, there has been increasing support for the use of conservative surgery combined with radiotherapy as primary treatment for women with early breast cancer. This support is based on published reports from both retrospective studies,1 2 3 4 5 which have demonstrated that this approach can provide high levels of local tumor control and good cosmetic results, and prospective randomized clinical trials,6 , 7 which have indicated that the outcome of this approach is comparable to that obtained with mastectomy.Although there is general agreement regarding the conceptual aspects of this approach, there has been little consensus regarding the technical details of . . .