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Three articles in this issue of the Journal advance our understanding of the treatment of early breast cancer. In one, the advance comes in the form of reassurance about the quality of a study whose results have already been reported. The results of a clinical trial (Protocol B-06) conducted by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), reported in the Journal in 1985¹ and 1989,² had been interpreted as showing that lumpectomy followed by irradiation yielded results about as good as those of mastectomy. The results of this large randomized trial were in general agreement with those of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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