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Breast ca study: no advantage with radical mastectomy. (25-Year Follow-Up).
Radical mastectomy did not improve overall survival, compared with less extensive surgery, among women with breast cancer who were followed for 25 years, reported Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh and his colleagues.
For the randomized, controlled trial initiated in 1971, 1,079 women with negative axillary nodes underwent either radical mastectomy, total mastectomy with postoperative irradiation (but no axillary dissection), or total mastectomy with axillary dissection if nodes became positive. An additional 586'women with positive axillary nodes underwent radical mastectomy or total mastectomy with postoperative irradiation.
Of those with negative nodes, the probability of survival was 25% in the radical mastectomy group, 19% in those who underwent total mastectomy plus radiation, and 26% in those who underwent total mastectomy alone. The hazard ratio for death from all causes among the total-mastectomy-plus-radiation group, compared with the radical mastectomy group, was 1.08, and for those who ...
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- Magazine article from: Medical Law's Regan Report Tammelleo, A. David June 1, 2003 700+ words
...Massachusetts case in which a patient who had undergone a radical mastectomy of her right breast sued one of her physicians for medical...pathology reported it was 25 millimeters. After undergoing a radical mastectomy of the right breast involving the removal of the entire...
- Botox cut myofascial pain after radical mastectomy. (Cases Report).
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News MacReady, Norra October 15, 2002 700+ words
...myofascial pain due to reconstructive surgery following radical mastectomy in a 50-year-old woman. The woman visited the Brighton...received a latissimus dorsi flap following a right-sided radical mastectomy. Right shoulder abduction was limited to 150 degrees...
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- Magazine article from: Statistical Bulletin-Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Mushinski, Margaret April 1, 1998 700+ words
...complete removal of the breast and adjacent tissues and muscles (radical mastectomy). In the 1970s, the less debilitating and disfiguring "modified radical mastectomy'"(*) began replacing the more radical surgery which had been...
- Breast cancer: death to the radical? (good results with less drastic surgery)
- Magazine article from: Science News Silberner, Joanne March 16, 1985 700+ words
...two reports, radical mastectomy was compared...removed; and with total mastectomy, in which the...survival after total mastectomy." Therapeutic...trial compared radical mastectomy with total mastectomy in 1,665 women...
- Challenging Myths in Physical Therapy.
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Harris, Susan R. June 1, 2001 700+ words
...challenge the myth that radical mastectomy was the only viable treatment...was as effective as the radical mastectomy in prolonging lives of...procedures--such as the total mastectomy or modified radical mastectomy--are now standard...
- Multifocal primary breast lymphoma.(Case Report)
- Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal Baker, Randal Slayden, Geoffrey Jennings, William October 1, 2005 700+ words
...biopsy or extend to partial mastectomy, total mastectomy, or even radical mastectomy. Chemotherapy with various agents is...therapy ranges from biopsy to modified radical mastectomy. (4) Chemotherapy has more recently...
- Breast cancer treatment.
- Newspaper article from: HealthFacts January 1, 1988 700+ words
...experts concluded that the radical mastectomy should no longer be the standard...drastic operation called the total mastectomy, now the standard treatment...several studies proving the radical mastectomy offered no survival advantage...
- Treatment. (Breast Cancer, part 2) (includes related article)
- Newspaper article from: Health News August 1, 1991 700+ words
...simple" or "modified radical" mastectomy -- removing the whole...underlying muscle. * "Simple total mastectomy" -- removing breast only...cells, is as effective as total mastectomy for breast cancers below...survivals equivalent to total mastectomy.... while still ...
- Similar survival in mastectomy, breast conservation. (20-Year Follow-Up).
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Mechcatie, Elizabeth December 1, 2002 700+ words
...randomized to treatment with a radical mastectomy or a quadrantectomy followed...among those who underwent a radical mastectomy. Local recurrences were...without radiation therapy and total mastectomy for treating invasive breast...
- No survival advantage for mastectomy after 20 years. (More than 2,500 Women...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Mechcatie, Elizabeth December 1, 2002 700+ words
...randomized to treatment with a radical mastectomy or a quadrantectomy followed...among those who underwent a radical mastectomy. Local recurrences were...without radiation therapy and total mastectomy for treating invasive breast...
Source: HighBeam Research, Breast ca study: no advantage with radical mastectomy. (25-Year...