RT Book, Section
A1 Bear, Harry D.
A1 Arthur, Douglas W.
A2 Morita, Shane Y.
A2 Balch, Charles M.
A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne
A2 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A2 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145760543
T1 Breast Conserving Therapy for Breast Cancer
T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793315
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145760543
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  beginning  of  breast  conserving  therapy  (BCT)  coincides  with  the  early  days  of  clinical  radiotherapy.  Geoffrey  Keynes,  a  London  surgeon,  practiced  breast  conserving  surgery  combined  with  radiotherapy  in  the  1920s,  and  Vera  Peters,  a  Toronto  radiation  oncologist  began  using  a  similar  approach  in  the  1930s.1-4  The  results,  in  terms  of  overall  survival,  were  comparable  to  contemporaneous  radical  surgical  results.  However,  this  was  likely  in  large  part  a  result  of  advanced  disease  at  presentation  and  the  lack  of  any  or  adequate  systemic  therapies,  resulting  in  equivalent  rates  of  death  that  occurred  before  progression  or  recurrence  of  local  disease.