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original article:
G. Gruber, B. F. Cole, M. Castiglione-Gertsch, S. B. Holmberg, J. Lindtner, R. Golouh, J. Collins, D. Crivellari, B. Thürlimann, E. Simoncini, M. F. Fey, R. D. Gelber, A. S. Coates, K. N. Price, A. Goldhirsch, G. Viale, B. A. Gusterson, and for the International Breast Cancer Study Group
Extracapsular tumor spread and the risk of local, axillary and supraclavicular recurrence in node-positive, premenopausal patients with breast cancer
Ann Oncol 2008; 0: mdn123v1-123 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
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[Read eLetter] Re: Extracapsular spread (ECS) in breast cancer and regional irradiation.
Christoph Glanzmann   (18 September 2008)

Re: Extracapsular spread (ECS) in breast cancer and regional irradiation. 18 September 2008
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Christoph Glanzmann,
Universitätsspital Zürich, Klinik für RadoOnkologie
CH 8036 Zürich

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Re: Re: Extracapsular spread (ECS) in breast cancer and regional irradiation.

I thank Dr.G Gruber and all the co-authors for this confirmation of our (and probably of many other's)practice: based on a reasonable number of mostly retrospective data, we have eliminated ECS as indication for regional , especially axillary irradiation since approximately ten years.

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