Breast cancer. A personal perspective.
The history of the evolution of thought about the treatment of breast cancer is reviewed. First the surgery was too radical, then radiation was overused; soon perhaps adjunctive chemotherapy will be overused. We should continue to search for new methods such as combinations of heat and radiation that might maintain or increase the immunologic resistance of the host.
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