American health insurance companies also paid surgeons more to perform radical mastectomies than they did to perform more intricate breast-sparing surgeries.
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But the majority of physicians now present radical mastectomy and less invasive surgeries as equally effective, leaving it to women to decide.
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He was an early advocate of using a lumpectomy and radiation where feasible instead of a radical mastectomy to treat breast cancer.
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The first radical mastectomy in the U . S . was performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital by William Stewart Halsted in 1882.
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Dr . Bloch told Adolf that his mother had a small chance of surviving and recommended that she undergo a radical mastectomy.
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Although radical mastectomies are rarely done today, experts say the Italian findings should be equally valid for patients treated with less extensive surgery.
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Women dreaded breast cancer not only for its life-threatening implications but also because the diagnosis inevitably meant mutilating surgery : a radical mastectomy.
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After her breast cancer was diagnosed, Vance incorporated her experiences into a solo performance, " The Radical Girl's Guide to Radical Mastectomy ."
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A campaign statement described the surgery as a modified radical mastectomy, which involves removal of the affected breast and some neighboring lymph nodes.
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Techniques in treating breast cancer have improved vastly since Sheila Rogers Engelberg of Van Nuys had a modified radical mastectomy 17 years ago.
