Breast-conserving therapy of early stage breast cancer / 中国癌症杂志

ABSTRACT

To introduce the advances of breast-conserving therapy(BCT) of early stage breast cancer.Discussion of pathological and biological feature of breast cancer,equivalence between breast-conserving therapy and radical operation,skills in BCT,sentinel lymph node biopsy,relative factors of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence(IBTR),postoperative radiotherapy,were emphasized.Usage of BCT will spread widely because of the increasing ratio of early stage breast and evolution of opinions of both the physicians and patients.