Carcinoma of the breast is responsive to irradiation, and we have validated this conclusion by our experience. Considering the advanced stage of the disease presented in this series of 27 cases, we may also conclude that radiation therapy offers a highly successful chance of local as well as regional nodal disease control for long periods of time in the large majority of these unfortunate women. The treatment, when carefully planned and executed, is well tolerated; indeed, it permits post‐irradiation conservative or even radical surgery should the lesion become operable.
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