@article{53194d08196743538b724c3b38ea709d,
title = "Approaches to breast cancer: A pathologist{\textquoteright}s perspective",
abstract = "This article reviews surgical and chemotherapy treatment modalities for breast cancer, from radical mastectomy to lumpectomy, including current knowledge of survival rates and the rationales behind cach procedure. Factors impeding clinical trials to determine the relative efficacies of each treatment are also discussed.",
author = "Alpert, {Laurence I.}",
note = "Funding Information: The conference. Consensus Development 011 Breosl Cancer Treatrncnt, was sponsored by the National Institute of IIeallh and lhe National Cancer Institute. A panel of international experts on breast carcinoma were brought to Washington, D.C.t o discuss alternatives to radical mastectomy for the treatment of local breast cancer. Thcrc was much disagreement and polarization among the panel members. Older surgeons, represented by Jeronle Urban of Memorial's Cancer Center in New York, maintain lllnt anything less than radical surgery leaves enough cancer behind to cause local recurrences or distant disease. However, some of the more recent clinical research, such as that ofBernard Fisher of the Breast Adjuvant Surgical Denlonstration Project and that of Umberto Veronisi of Italy's National Cancer Instituk,shows Lhat the survival and cancer recurrence rates for patients who underwent far lesser surgical procedures appears to be as good as those who underwent radical surgery (see preceding article by Alpert). These studies are still in propress, and in a fcw years, the results will be more definitive.",
year = "1979",
month = nov,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1300/J013v04n03_05",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "269--287",
journal = "Women and Health",
issn = "0363-0242",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "3",
}