UK News 17-10-2002 who: Breast Cancer specialist Monica Morrow what: Says mastectomies are "unnecessary" where: Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago when: Yesterday snippet: Ms Morrow`s New England Journal today publishes the results of a 20-year study of breast cancer patients treated in the 1970s and 1980s which shows that "there is no difference in survival between those who had mastectomies and those who had smaller operations just to remove the tumour." The Independent quotes Ms Morrow, who says she hopes to convince "even the most determined sceptics that mastectomy is not superior to breast conservation." [... more]

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