Current status of therapy for breast cancer worldwide and in Japan

Figure 1 Disease-free survival at 10 years (A), during the first 5 years (B), and during the second 5 years for patients free of disease at the end of 5 years (C). Patients were treated by radical mastectomy (solid circles), total mastectomy plus radiation (crosses), or total mastectomy alone (open circles). There were no significant differences among the three groups of patients with clinically negative nodes (solid line) or between the two groups with clinically positive nodes (broken line)[1].