title: A personal experience with Halsted's radical mastectomy.
abstract: This is a summary of Haagensen's experience with radical mastectomy over a 51-year period at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. His prospective, experimental study includes 1036 patients with a follow-up of 47 years. These data are unequalled for any single method of treatment for breast carcinoma.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies