Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer: Less Is More
Survival from breast cancer continues to improve. This is great news and comes to us from multiple sources. At the same time, we do smaller, less disfiguring operations than we used to do. Breast cancer attacks a part of the body with tremendous aesthetic and emotional importance. The very mentioning of the condition has evoked in the past (and still today) dire responses from patients and doctors. So without the benefit of modern, smart weaponry and with an earlier, crude…