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Reports on conservative surgery of small breast carcinoma have accumulated over recent years, and the results seem to be very promising [4, 9, 12–14]. The necessity of postoperative radiation therapy after conservative breast surgery was clearly demonstrated by the 5-year results of the NSABP trial B06 [7] and earlier by the Milan group [17] and by Hayward [8] and Atkins et al. [1]. B. Fisher et al. [7] have reported a local recurrence rate of 7.7% after segmental mastectomy and axillary dissection followed by irradiation of the breast vs 30% without radiotherapy. The aim of our study was to further reduce the local recurrence rate by adding interstitial radiotherapy with indium-192 implants at the site of the primary lesion to the percutaneous irradiation of the breast.
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Reiner, G. et al. (1990). Interstitial Radiotherapy with Iridium 192 in the Treatment of Early Breast Cancer. In: Jakesz, R., Rainer, H. (eds) Progress in Regional Cancer Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74818-9_42
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