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Volume 348:657-660 February 13, 2003 Number 7
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Breast-Conserving Surgery for Breast Cancer

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To the Editor: As a primary care physician who performs breast-cancer screening as a large part of my preventive care practice, I was interested in the data on breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer reported by Veronesi et al. (Oct. 17 issue).1 Such 20-year survival data from randomized, prospective trials will be helpful when I counsel women who have recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer.

The authors' conclusion that breast-conserving surgery is the treatment of choice is not supported by their data. The observation that the 20-year survival rate among the women who underwent radical mastectomy was the same as . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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