The Nation - News from Feb. 11, 1985
A study of 2,200 women with breast cancer shows that those who undergo simple removal of the tumor and radiation treatment do just as well as women who undergo disfiguring mastectomy surgery, Newsweek magazine reported in its Feb. 18 edition. The study of women treated at more than two dozen U.S. cancer centers was conducted by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project, Newsweek said. The head of the study, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said that 92% of women who underwent “lumpectomies” together with radiation were free of cancer after five years.
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