[Evaluation of survival in a sample of patients treated with radical mastectomy for mammary carcinoma].

Survival and its modalities were studied in 40 patients subjected to Halsted's operation for breast cancer between 1960 and 1972. The following parameters were considered: age at time of surgery, onset of tumour before or after menopause, age of commencement of menopause, married or single, number of pregnancies, breast feeding, regularity of menstrual cycle, prior breast disease, time elapsed between first symptoms and mastectomy, side affected, quadrant affected, involvement of ipsilateral lymph nodes, histological type, complementary X-ray treatment, ovariectomy, and medical hormone therapy.