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What is the Best Approach to the Primary Lesion in Breast Cancer

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“In fifty cases operated upon by what we call the complete method we have been able to trace only three local recurrences.” So said William S. Halsted [1] in April 1894 to the Clinical Society of Maryland. This paper opened an era of surgical tradition in the treatment of breast cancer which was to go unchallenged for half a century (Fig. 1).

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Rider, W.D. (1973). What is the Best Approach to the Primary Lesion in Breast Cancer. In: Griem, M.L., Jensen, E.V., Ultmann, J.E., Wissler, R.W. (eds) Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85832-1_13

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