Yoshifumi Komoike, Futoshi Akiyama, Yuichi Iino, Tadashi Ikeda, Sadako Tanaka-Akashi, Shozo Ohsumi, Mikihiro Kusama, Muneaki Sano, Eisei Shin, Kimito Suemasu, Hiroshi Sonoo, Tetsuya Taguchi, Tunehiro Nishi, Reiki Nishimura, Shunsuke Haga, Keiichi Mise, Takayuki Kinoshita, Shigeru Murakami, Masataka Yoshimoto, Hideaki Tsukuma, Hideo Inaji
BACKGROUND: Ipsilateral breast tumor recurrences (IBTR) after breast-conserving treatment include two different entities: true recurrence (TR) thought to occur when residual cancer cells grow gradually to detectable size and new primary (NP) thought to be de novo cancer independently arising in the preserved breast. The patients with ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) are potentially at high risk for subsequent distant metastasis, but many studies do not distinguish between these types of recurrence...
2005: Breast Cancer: the Journal of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society