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Impact of public education about cancer on detection and treatment of cancer of the breast by surgery
Author(s) -
Kelley Jack L.,
Thieme E. Thurston
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(1967)20:2<260::aid-cncr2820200212>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , general surgery , cancer , surgery , axillary nodes , radical surgery , breast carcinoma , oncology
Ten years of breast surgery in a community was analyzed to determine if changes have developed as a result of cancer education programs. Carcinoma was found in 26.8% of 2,677 breast biopsies and remained relatively unchanged yearly for 10 years. During this time radical mastectomies without axillary metastases remained constant at 50% each year. In the past 50 years negative axillae have increased from 36 to 50% in 21,864 cases from the literature. In the past 10 years there has been no change in the “earliness” that tumors of the breast are presenting themselves to the surgeon.