Inflammatory breast carcinoma treated by radical radiotherapy
Inflammatory breast carcinoma treated by radical radiotherapy
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炎性乳腺癌的根治性放射治疗
作者:
A. Chu;W. Wood;Joanne A. Doucette
Sixty‐two patients with localized clinical inflammatory breast carcinoma were treated with curative, radical radiotherapy doses to the breast and draining lymphatics at Massachusetts General Hospital from January 1960 to December 1977. Fifty patients have died from disease, 7 are alive with disease, and 5 are free of disease at time of reporting, thus indicating the fulminant nature of this rare form of breast cancer. Median survival is approximately 18 months (mean 24 months). A five‐year actuarial survival and relapse‐free survival of 14% and 6%, respectively, are obtained. Local and regional recurrence was noted in 43 of 62 patients (69%). Twelve patients (19%) failed in the locally irradiated area only, 31 patients (50%) failed in both local, regional, and distant sites, and 14 patients (23%) failed with distant metastases only.