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Original Article

Extended radical mastectomy versus simple mastectomy followed by radiotherapy in primary breast cancer. A fifty-year follow-up to the Copenhagen Breast Cancer randomised study

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Pages 633-638 | Received 19 Oct 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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