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Post-mastectomy radiotherapy reduces recurrence and mortality

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The recent results of the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Cooperative Group meta-analysis have demonstrated that post-mastectomy radiotherapy reduces breast cancer recurrence and mortality in women with positive axillary lymph nodes—independently from the number of the lymph nodes involved—with no significant effect in patients with node-negative axillary status.

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Orecchia, R. Post-mastectomy radiotherapy reduces recurrence and mortality. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 11, 382–384 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.95

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