Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer

Veronesi, Umberto; Cascinelli, Natale; Mariani, Luigi; Greco, Marco; Saccozzi, Roberto; Luini, Alberto; Aguilar, Marisel; Marubini, Ettore

doi:10.1056/nejmoa020989

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Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Oct 17, 2002

Authors:

Umberto Veronesi

Natale Cascinelli

Luigi Mariani

Abstract

BACKGROUND: We conducted 20 years of follow-up of women enrolled in a randomized trial to compare the efficacy of radical (Halsted) mastectomy with that of breast-conserving surgery. METHODS: From 1973 to 1980, 701 women with breast cancers measuring no more than 2 cm in diameter were randomly assig...

Subject

Medicine

Quadrantectomy

Breast cancer

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