Quandrantectomy in the conservative treatment of breast carcinoma

Two years after the first evaluation, the authors review the results of quadrantectomy in the conservative treatment of breast carcinoma. Local control of the disease by quadrantectomy with axillary lymphadenectomy and radiotherapy has been more difficult in the T2 patients (4 local relapses out of 41 patients) compared T1 patients (3 local relapses out of 52 patients). Nodal involvement appears to be not crucial for the prognosis (7 patients out of 10 with remote metastases were N- at the time of surgery).