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What is the evidence that we should do anything different in breast cancer patients with 1 to 3 nodes involved versus those with four or more nodes involved?

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Radiation Oncology · UNC School of Medicine

A careful read of the literature will demonstrate that there is nothing magical about the threshold as one moves from 3 to 4 involved nodes, that the risk of a local regional failure increases almost linearly with the number of positive nodes, and that the addition of postmastectomy radiation improv...

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