Vera Peters and the conservative management of early-stage breast cancer

[摘要] ABSTRACT During the first three quarters of the twentieth century, radical mastectomy was an accepted and common procedure in the management of patients with earlystage cancer of the breast. After a lifetime of thinking about and working with patients with early-stage breast cancer, Vera Peters presented and published, in the mid-1970s, a retrospective historical case– control study that demonstrated the lack of a survival benefit for radical or modified radical mastectomy as compared with more conservative surgery with lumpectomy. In the years that followed, prospective randomized studies confirmed her findings.

[学科分类] 肿瘤学