부산대학교 도서관

Radiotherapy and surgery are local treatments and can be compared in randomized trails. Recent examples have compared axillary radiotherapy to completion lymphadectomy surgery for sentinel lymph node positive breast cancer and have shown radiotherapy was non-inferior in terms of regional control, but was also significantly less morbid. A superficial reading of these studies may miss an important consideration, the volume of the axilla actually being treated by the different modalities. We conducted this study to compare the difference in planned axillary treatment volumes undergoing axillary lymph node dissection as compared to axillary radiotherapy.