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For most of this century, women with breast cancer presented with large palpable masses. The size gradually decreased so that by 1970, the average tumor was 3 cm in diameter [1]. Unfortunately, 50 percent of these patients had positive axillary lymph nodes [1–3], most of them going on to develop distant metastases. A technique for finding smaller, earlier breast cancer was urgently needed.
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Silverstein, M.J. et al. (1987). Finding Earlier Nonpalpable Breast Cancers Using Hooked Wire Directed Biopsy and a Modified Overpenetrated Mammographic Technique. In: Paterson, A.H.G., Lees, A.W. (eds) Fundamental Problems in Breast Cancer. Developments in Oncology, vol 51. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2049-4_10
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