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BURTON J. LEE, M.D.; GEORGE T. PACK, M.D.; EDITH H. QUIMBY, M.S.; FRED W. STEWART, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1932;24(3):339-410.

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Carcinoma situated in the breast has certain physical advantages for treatment by irradiation. The mammary gland is superficial enough so that any tumor in its depth may receive a considerable percentage of the energy from external sources of radiation. The accessibility of the breast permits a reasonably correct measurement of the tumor, an accurate estimation of the dosage and the proper implantation of radioactive foci. The reactionary phenomena following irradiation of the breast are of little moment and are seldom complicated by sloughing and infection, which are frequently present in tumors of the respiratory, genito-urinary and alimentary canals. The loss of mammary function is relatively unimportant to patients with carcinoma of the breast, since their average age is slightly over 50 years. Irradiation of mammary cancer does not contraindicate subsequent mastectomy; therefore the opportunity is afforded to apply various methods of irradiation, to amputate the breast, to study critically the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

From the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, April 17, 1931.

Read before the Section on Radiology at the Eighty-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Detroit, June 25, 1930.

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