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Patricia A. Ganz, MD, on Breast Cancer: Whole- vs Partial-Breast Irradiation

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Patricia A. Ganz, MD, of NRG Oncology and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, discusses the NRG/NSABP phase III findings, which showed that partial-breast irradiation was more convenient and resulted in less fatigue but slightly poorer cosmesis at 36 months in patients who did not receive chemotherapy (Abstract 508).



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