Kumar P P, Henschke U K
J Natl Med Assoc. 1977 Dec;69(12):859-63.
In medicine, one modality of treatment cannot be replaced by another unless the new method is equal, if not superior, to the existing one. Currently, much is heard about using irradiation alone for the treatment of early breast cancer. Uniform irradiation of the breast, underlying chest wall, and the regional lymph nodes is a complex procedure and unless done properly, a geographical miss of the tumor and/or unnecessary irradiation of adjacent normal structures can occur, leading to inferiority of the treatment method.
在医学领域，一种治疗方式不能被另一种治疗方式所取代，除非新方法即便不比现有方法更优，至少也要与之相当。目前，关于单独使用放射治疗早期乳腺癌的讨论颇多。对乳房、其下方的胸壁以及区域淋巴结进行均匀照射是一个复杂的过程，除非操作得当，否则可能会出现肿瘤照射遗漏和/或对相邻正常组织进行不必要的照射，从而导致治疗方法效果不佳。
