Does radiation therapy improve survival for women with ductal carcinoma in situ?

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found that a set of easily measurable risk factors can predict the magnitude of survival benefit offered by radiation therapy following breast cancer surgery. Their results appear online in The Journal of Clinical Oncology on Feb. 1.
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