Next Article in Journal
The Role of Photopheresis in the Treatment of Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Previous Article in Journal
Reply from Dr. Luis Souhami
 
 
Current Oncology is published by MDPI from Volume 28 Issue 1 (2021). Previous articles were published by another publisher in Open Access under a CC-BY (or CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, and they are hosted by MDPI on mdpi.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with Multimed Inc..
Font Type:
Arial Georgia Verdana
Font Size:
Aa Aa Aa
Line Spacing:
Column Width:
Background:
Article

Vera Peters and the Conservative Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, and Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON M5L 2L7, Canada
Curr. Oncol. 2010, 17(2), 50-54; https://doi.org/10.3747/co.v17i2.467
Submission received: 8 January 2010 / Revised: 3 February 2010 / Accepted: 5 March 2010 / Published: 1 April 2010

Abstract

During the first three quarters of the twentieth century, radical mastectomy was an accepted and common procedure in the management of patients with earlystage cancer of the breast. After a lifetime of thinking about and working with patients with early-stage breast cancer, Vera Peters presented and published, in the mid-1970s, a retrospective historical case–control study that demonstrated the lack of a survival benefit for radical or modified radical mastectomy as compared with more conservative surgery with lumpectomy. In the years that followed, prospective randomized studies confirmed her findings.
Keywords: Vera Peters; cancer of the breast; early stage; radical mastectomy; lumpectomy; survival Vera Peters; cancer of the breast; early stage; radical mastectomy; lumpectomy; survival

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Cowan, D.H. Vera Peters and the Conservative Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer. Curr. Oncol. 2010, 17, 50-54. https://doi.org/10.3747/co.v17i2.467

AMA Style

Cowan DH. Vera Peters and the Conservative Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer. Current Oncology. 2010; 17(2):50-54. https://doi.org/10.3747/co.v17i2.467

Chicago/Turabian Style

Cowan, Donald H. 2010. "Vera Peters and the Conservative Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer" Current Oncology 17, no. 2: 50-54. https://doi.org/10.3747/co.v17i2.467

Article Metrics

Back to TopTop