The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Correspondence
PreviousPrevious
Volume 335:1240 October 17, 1996 Number 16
NextNext

Sequencing of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited

More Information
To the Editor: Recht et al. (May 23 issue)1 describe the effect of sequencing of chemotherapy and radiation on the risk of relapse and death in 244 women with early-stage breast cancer. Two points need to be made. First, distant metastases developed in two patients in the radiotherapy-first group while they were receiving therapy. The authors do not state what staging procedures were done before enrollment in the study. Perhaps the authors could recalculate their statistics with these two patients excluded from the analysis, to see whether the two groups still differed from each other. The second point is that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.