By Kate O'Rourke
San Antonio—Women with early-stage breast cancer have better outcomes if they receive breast-conserving surgery and radiation rather than mastectomy, according to two studies presented at the 2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).
A population-based study in the Netherlands showed that breast-conserving therapy plus radiation improved 10-year survival compared with mastectomy (abstract S3-05). Another observational study revealed that women in the