yet another clinical application of the subclinical disease concept is the successful combination of conservation surgery ( whether segmental mastectomy , quadrantectomy , or wide excision ) for gross tumor in the breast and axilla and irradiation for residual microscopic and multiple foci of tumor , yielding more than 90 % control of locoregional disease with survival rates equal to those patients treated with radical or modified radical mastectomy .
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