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- Title
Lumpectomy for mammary carcinoma. A retrospective analysis of 40 presumptive candidates from a surgical series.
- Authors
Pickren, John W.; Satchidanand, Yashodhara K.; Lane, Warren W.; Haagensen, Cushman D.; Pickren, J W; Satchidanand, Y K; Lane, W W; Haagensen, C D
- Abstract
This presumptive study concerns the value of lumpectomy as a curative procedure for minimal breast carcinoma, defined as an operable cancer no larger than 2 cm in diameter, with no palpable axillary lymph nodes, and, in peripherally located lesions, no Paget's disease. From 199 surgically treated mammary cancer patients, 40 cases met the minimal criteria. Thirty-eight of the minimal breast carcinoma patients had a radical mastectomy and two had a supraradical procedure. The pathology findings and survival data were analyzed in these minimal carcinoma cases, and it was calculated that lumpectomy alone would have left cancer cells in 48% of the patients because of regional lymph node involvement by cancer, extension of cells from a peripheral cancer to the nipple ducts, or presence of a second carcinoma in the breast. However, the estimated 30-year cure rate in these radical surgically treated patients was 86%.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1984, Vol 54, Issue 8, p1692
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(19841015)54:8<1692::AID-CNCR2820540834>3.0.CO;2-4