Carcinoma of the Breast

Abstract

Primary Treatment of the Localized DiseaseFor the past fifteen or twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency of surgeons to avoid mastectomy in locally advanced cases. This avoidance of radical mastectomy in unfavorable cases marks a distinct advance in the treatment of this disease, and is traceable to the work of many scholars of this subject, but particularly to the studies of Haagensen. He has developed a simple clinical classification of this disease and has emphasized the limitations of radical mastectomy.^{23 24 25} Haagensen's clinical classification, as employed in the analysis of this disease, should be based solely on the . . .