title: Appraising current therapy for breast cancer; 1. surgery.
abstract: Breast cancer is an extremely unpredictable type of lesion, due in part to its hormone dependence. Although minimal resection may suffice for those patients with great host resistance, radical or modified radical mastectomy is the treatment of choice unless distant metastases are evident.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods