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Axillary Clearance in Operable Breast Cancer: Still a Necessity?

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Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer VI

Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research ((RECENTCANCER,volume 152))

Abstract

For many years, axillary lymph node dissection has been a routine part of the surgical treatment of breast cancer. This has been most often accompanied in the past by a total mastectomy (radical mastectomy or modified radical mastectomy); more recently, it has often been carried out at the time of or subsequent to segmental (breast conserving) mastectomy.

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  1. Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    D. W. Kinne

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  1. Zentrum für Tumordiagnostik und Prävention, Rorschacherstrasse 150, CH-9006, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Hans-Jörg Senn

  2. Dana Farber Cancer Institute Biostatistics, 44 Binney Street, Boston, 02115, USA

    Richard D. Gelber Ph.D

  3. Ospedale Civico, CH-6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Aron Goldhirsch

  4. Klinik C für Innere Medizin Abteilung für Onkologie und Hämatologie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, CH-9007, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Beat Thürlimann

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Kinne, D.W. (1998). Axillary Clearance in Operable Breast Cancer: Still a Necessity?. In: Senn, HJ., Gelber, R.D., Goldhirsch, A., Thürlimann, B. (eds) Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer VI. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45769-2_15

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