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The likelihood of undergoing BCS was 50% lower among women living more than 15 miles from the next radiotherapy facility.
Patients in the radiotherapy (RT), loss of heterozygosity (LOH) group had significantly lower 5 year relapse-free survival {23% (95% CI: 2% to 44%) vs. 69% (95% CI: 46% to 92%); p = 0.02} (Figure 2), locoregional control {34% (95% CI: 11% to 57%) vs. 75% (95% CI: 54% to 98%); p = 0.03} (Figure 3) and cause specific survival {29% (95% CI: 5% to 53%) vs. 75% (95% CI: 54% to 96%); p = 0.02} (Figure 4) than those in the RT, non LOH group.
The clinical trial from which the tumor specimens used in this study were derived showed improvements in relapse-free survival, locoregional control, and overall survival for those patients randomized to combined modality therapy [ 31 ] . This investigation established that patients whose tumors had M6P/IGF2R loss of heterozygosity and were treated with radiotherapy alone had a significantly worse prognosis than their counterparts with a non-mutated allele.
This would be desirable since the morbidity of combined modality therapy is greater than that of radiotherapy alone [ 50 51 ] .
It appears from the different clinical trials with endostatin, thalidomide, the synthetic inhibitors of MMPs, and the different anti-VEGFs that angiostatics, though slightly effective in advanced diseases, are more likely indicated in combination with chemotherapy or radiotherapy and as an adjuvant therapy to treat small tumour masses, in particular local minimal residual disease or micrometastasis.
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