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Over the course of the past century, the local treatment of breast cancer has evolved toward breast-preserving procedures with progressively smaller operative fields. When the first large series of radical mastectomies was presented in 1895, not only the breast but its underlying muscles and the axillary lymph nodes were removed en bloc.1 As the social stigma that cancer carried during the first half of this century diminished, patients began to present earlier, enabling preservation of the anterior axillary skin fold through retention of the pectoralis muscles—enough that by the 1940s the “modified” radical mastectomy, producing a better cosmetic appearance, was well accepted.
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Robinson, D.S. (1999). In Situ Laser Ablation. In: Singletary, S.E. (eds) Breast Cancer. M.D. Anderson Solid Tumor Oncology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2146-3_25
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