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There is no doubt that breast surgery had undergone a true revolution in the last 20 years and that the traditional Halsted mastectomy, which was the treatment of choice for all woman with breast cancer in the first half of this century, has been gradually replaced initially by less mutilating techniques and later by treatments designed to preserve the breast.
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Veronesi, U. (1989). New Trends in Breast Cancer Surgery. In: Senn, HJ., Goldhirsch, A., Gelber, R.D., Osterwalder, B. (eds) Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83337-3_29
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