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No Evidence of Mastectomy Overuse in Large Survey
No Evidence of Mastectomy Overuse in Large Survey
R Finn
20090913
2009 Oct 13
Elsevier Global Medical News
No Evidence of Mastectomy Overuse in Large Survey
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2009 Oct 13, R Finn
More than three-quarters of women newly diagnosed with intraductal or stage I or II breast cancer elected breast-conserving surgery as their initial surgical therapy, according to a survey of nearly 2,000 women published in the Oct. 14 issue of JAMA. "For about the past 20 years, there have been concerns that mastectomy has been overutilized," said Dr. Monica Morrow during a press briefing. "What we concluded from this study is that most surgeons in two large, diverse urban areas appropriately recommended...