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Distance From Cancer Facility Affects Treatment Choices.
2001 NOV 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with early stage breast cancer who live 15 miles or more from a hospital offering radiotherapy are half as likely to choose lumpectomy, the breast conserving surgery, instead of mastectomy, according to a new study by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee.
Conversely, only half of the patients who chose lumpectomy, and lived 40 miles or more away from the treatment center, received the recommended radiotherapy treatment compared with those who lived within 10 miles of a center. The study was reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"Mastectomy may be the best treatment choice for women who cannot complete radiotherapy following lumpectomy because of travel or other reasons," says Ann B. Nattinger, MD, professor and chief of internal medicine at the Medical College and lead author of the study. "A woman should make her treatment choice very carefully because lumpectomy without radiotherapy has a 35% risk of local disease recurrence."
The study looked at records for 17,729 women age 30 and over with early (stage I or II) breast cancer from the National Cancer ...
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