Some early breast cancer patients benefit more from breast conservation than from mastectomy

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) Breast conserving therapy (BCT) is better than mastectomy for patients with some types of early breast cancer, according to results from the largest study to date, presented at ECC2017. Dutch researchers report that considerably superior survival, both specific to breast cancer and from any cause of death, was found among certain groups of patients who had had BCT.