Table 1.

Chest wall failure rates following mastectomy for in-breast failure following lumpectomy and WBI

	No. of pts	Med. F/U (mo’s)	Chest wall re-recurrence rate (%)	5-yr OS rates (%)
Clarke, et al, 1985	12	26	27	-
Recht, et al, 1989	65	32	9	-
Kurtz, et al, 1989	43	53	12a	53
Forquet, et al, 1989	39	63	-	73
Fowble, et al, 1990	52	25	-	84
****	41	60	-	59
Osborne, et al, 1992	46	28	31	76
Abner, et al, 1993	106	39	7	79
Cajucom, et al, 1993	25	52	32	65
Dalberg, et al, 1998	65	156	19	-
Salvadori, et al, 1999	134	73	4	70
Doyle, et al, 2001	112	44	3	83
Huang, et al, 2002	118	84	20	52b

Abbreviations: No., number; Med., median; F/U, follow-up; mo’s, months; yr, year; OS, overall survival

^achest wall and regional failures

^btrue recurrences