Radiation Therapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer after Breast-Conserving Surgery  

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Buchholz, Thomas A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 360 no. 01 (Jan. 2009), page 63-70.
Topik: Radiation therapy; breast cancer

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Breast cancer remains the most common nondermatologic cancer among women in the United States. In 2008, more than 250,000 new cases were expected to be diagnosed, including 184,000 cases of invasive disease and 68,000 cases of in situ (noninvasive) disease. Risk factors for breast cancer include female sex, increasing age, a family history of the disease, inherited germ-line mutations in tumor-suppressor genes (e.g., BRCA1, BRCA2, and p53), nulliparity or late age at first pregnancy, regular alcohol use, and use of hormone-replacement therapy Although breast cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death among women, the annual rate of death from breast cancer has decreased steadily since 1990.This decrease is thought to have resulted from improvements in treatment and increased use of screening, resulting in early detection. Most women in whom breast cancer is diagnosed in the United States will be cured. The National Cancer Institute estimated that in 2004, approximately 2.4 million women with a history of breast cancer were alive.1,9 The number was probably even higher in 2008.

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