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Breast Cancer
Study: Breast-conserving surgery viable option for cancer involving nipple/areola
April 6th, 2004
For many years, breast-conserving surgery has been the standard of care for women with early stage breast cancer. However, women with cancers involving the nipple and areola often are not given this option; most are treated with mastectomy. Doctors feared recurrence and believed the cosmetic result would be deemed unsatisfactory by both the patients and the surgeons. In fact, women with cancers involving the nipple and areola were excluded from the large randomized studies of breast-conserving surgery done in the 1980s and 1990s. A study by a group of surgeons and physicians at The Rosenfeld Cancer Center at Abington Memorial...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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