[Conservative surgery and radiation therapy in the treatment of operable breast cancer].

Forty-five patients with breast cancer were treated in our hospital by conservative surgery and radiation therapy from 1985 to 1994. There were 22 patients in stage I and 23 in stage II. All the patients were received breast-preserved operation including segmental resection and axillary node dissection. Routine postoperative irradiation was given to the patients with or without regional lymphatic melastasis. The indications of chemotherapy and endocrinotherapy were as same as those of Halsted's radical mastectomy. The duration of following-up was 3-5 years. The 5-year local recurrence was 8.8%. The 5-year OS was 94.1%, and DFS 94.1%.