Repeat breast conservation safe & effective

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ASTRO/...

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• "published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
• The combination of a second lumpectomy plus partial breast re-irradiation (with or without chemotherapy), as salvage therapy in women who had ipsilateral recurrence after initial breast-conserving therapy for early breast cancer, achieves very good control of the recurrent disease with a median follow-up of 3.6 years.
• Note that the patients had a median age of 67 and a median time to ipsilateral recurrence of 13.9 years, with a time to recurrence ranging from 1.6 to 27.7 years after initial treatment."