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Extent of breast surgery to halt cancer questioned study
A preliminary report from an international trial involving 1,700 women at 34 centers questions whether radical mastectomy offers more cure benefit than less extensive surgery in patients whose cancer has not spread to lymph nodes. The study highlights lumpectomy and simple mastectomy as potentially comparable over time, but warns that definitive conclusions require a decade of follow up.
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New York
Betty Ford
Wieglands
Ansiwer
Bernard Fisher
Frank Rauscher
National Cancer
Fisher
Ms. Ford
Center For Law and Social Policy
Washington
Wisher
United States