Abstract
After breast-conserving surgery, radiotherapy reduces recurrence and breast cancer death, but it may do so more for some groups of women than for others. We describe the absolute magnitude of these reductions according to various prognostic and other patient characteristics, and relate the absolute reduction in 15-year risk of breast cancer death to the absolute reduction in 10-year recurrence risk. We undertook a meta-analysis of individual patient data for 10 801 women in 17 randomised trials of radiotherapy versus no radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery, 8337 of whom had pathologically confirmed node-negative (pN0) or node-positive (pN+) disease. Overall, radiotherapy reduced the 10-year risk of any (ie, locoregional or distant) first recurrence from 35·0 to 19·3 (absolute reduction 15·7, 95 CI 13·7-17·7, 2p
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1707-1716 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Lancet |
Volume | 378 |
Issue number | 9804 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 12 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)