for patients with locally and regionally advanced breast cancer , the combination of a simple mastectomy and dissection of the lateral axilla followed by postoperative irradiation of 5000 rad in 5 weeks to the chest wall , axilla , and peripheral lymphatic areas will control more than 85 % of the patients treated as compared with approximately 70 % control when surgery or radiotherapy alone is used , even with chemotherapy .
C0006141
breast
C0024886
simple mastectomy