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Abstract

Pre-operative Radiation of Breast. By William E. Howes, M.D., and Herman Bolker, M.D. American Journal of Roentgenology, July 1940.

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The authors state that by surgery 80 per cent. cases of carcinoma of the breast localised to the breast (Stage 1) are 5-year cures, whereas the percentage of 5-year cures by surgery in cases in which the axillary glands are involved, or in which other extensions have taken place, is seldom more than 20 per cent., therefore series of the second group of patients was given an intensive pre-operative X-ray course, a biopsy having been taken before treatment, to determine the morphological changes produced in the tissues.