TY - JOUR AU - Budach, Wilfried AU - Kammers, Kai AU - Boelke, Edwin AU - Matuschek, Christiane PY - 2013 DA - 2013/11/14 TI - Adjuvant radiotherapy of regional lymph nodes in breast cancer - a meta-analysis of randomized trials JO - Radiation Oncology SP - 267 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Radiotherapy (RT) improves overall survival (OS) of breast cancer patients after breast conserving surgery and after mastectomy in patients with involved lymph nodes (LN). The contribution of RT to the regional LN to this survival benefit was poorly understood. Recently, the results of three large randomized trials addressing this question have become available. SN - 1748-717X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-8-267 DO - 10.1186/1748-717X-8-267 ID - Budach2013 ER -