Schulgen G, Schmoor C, Sauerbrei W, Schumacher M
Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 1998 May;49(1):87-91. doi: 10.1023/a:1005969923607.
Local recurrence rates play an important role in the evaluation and judgement of local treatment modalities in breast cancer. In the medical literature different methods for the calculation of these rates have been used. In this note we discuss the methods, the observed differences, and the interpretation of the resulting estimates.
