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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Nov 10;77(4):1120–1127. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.067

Table 4.

Treatment outcome

End point No.
failures
4-year
estimates
95% CI At risk
All ipsilateral breast failure (IBF) 3 6% (0–12%) 40
    Within field, invasive 2 4% (0–9%) 40
    Within field, noninvasive 0 0% 40
    Outside field 1 2% (0–6%) 40
    Peripheral (skin) 1 2% (0–6%) 40
IBF without concurrent distant failure 2 4% (0–9%) 40
Ipsilateral nodal failure (protocol-defined) 1 2% (0–6%) 42
Contralateral breast failure 0 0% 42
Distant failure 4 8% (0–15%) 40
Mastectomy-free survival 6 90% (78–96%) 39
Disease-free survival (see Table 5 for details) 8 84% (71–92%) 37
Overall survival 3 96% (85–99%) 42