Breast Cancer (Surgery)
Change in the Use of Breast-Conserving Surgery in Western Washington after the 1990 NIH Consensus Development Conference
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 9th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Archives of Surgery, "Objective: To evaluate the use of breast-conserving surgery in western Washington before and after the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference (June 18-21, 1990) during which breast-conserving surgery was recommended for most women with early invasive breast cancer. Design: Survey. Setting: Population-based cancer registry in the Seattle-Puget Sound (Washington) region. Participants: The survey included 13,541 women in whom American Joint Committee on Cancer stage I or II breast cancer was diagnosed between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1993....
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