Carcinoma of the Breast

Abstract

THE management of mammary cancer has been at the forefront of surgical thought during the past half century. Now, the therapeutic horizon is expanding rapidly. We can offer the unfortunate woman suffering from this common disease a remarkable range of helpful measures even though she is far advanced in her illness and cure beyond our reach.The purpose of this paper is to review the present status of work in this field, the endocrine aspects of which were last reviewed in the Journal by the late Dr. Nathanson in 1952.¹ Since the publication of his review, the chief areas of . . .