Experts agree that lumpectomy patients live longer than mastectomy patients with better quality of life. BCT is superior to more radical surgery. Bilateral mastectomy has no survival benefit.
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Mastectomy v. Lumpectomy: Who Decides?
Diana Zuckerman, PhD, National Center for Health Research Approximately 230,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Over the last two decades, research has regularly provided new evidence that breast cancer patients can live just as long – or even longer – with less radical treatment. In the 1990s, research […]
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