Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk postmenopausal breast-cancer patients given adjuvant tamoxifen:: Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group DBCG 82c randomised trial
Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk postmenopausal breast-cancer patients given adjuvant tamoxifen:: Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group DBCG 82c randomised trial
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(98)09201-0
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发表时间:
1999-05-15
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
Mouridsen, HT
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作者:
Overgaard, M;Jensen, MB;Mouridsen, HT
Background Postmastectomy radiotherapy is associated with a lower locoregional recurrence rate and improved disease-free and overall survival when combined with chemotherapy in premenopausal high-risk breast-cancer patients. However, whether the same benefits apply also in postmenopausal women treated with adjuvant tamoxifen for similar high-risk cancer is unclear. In a randomised trial among postmenopausal women who had undergone mastectomy, we compared adjuvant tamoxifen alone with tamoxifen plus postoperative radiotherapy.Methods Between 1982 and 1990, postmenopausal women with high-risk breast cancer (stage II or III) were randomly assigned adjuvant tamoxifen (30 mg daily for 1 year) alone (689) or with postoperative radiotherapy to the chest wall and regional lymph nodes (686). Median follow-up was 123 months. The endpoints were first site of recurrence (locoregional recurrence, distant metastases, or both), and disease-free and overall metastases, survival.Findings Locoregional recurrence occurred in 52 (8%) of the radiotherapy plus tamoxifen group and 242 (35%) of the tamoxifen only group (p