RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH
The Cancer Breakthrough You've Never Heard Of
| "The Cancer Breakthrough You've Never Heard of" - It is widely known that lumpectomy and radiation therapy is just as effective as mastectomy in treating curable breast cancer. But, the famous North American (NSABP) lumpectomy study treated 1/3 of patients with lumpectomy alone - no radiation therapy. What happened to this group of patients? This is this most surprising result of this famous study and it provides the most convincing support for conservative cancer surgery.? |
Yes, over 300 patients were treated by lumpectomy alone. Forty percent (40%) of them developed locally recurrent cancer in the treated breast. This cancer was also removed.
What do yo think happened to this group of patients?
Surprisingly, they lived just as long as all the other patients - those treated with mastectomy or those treated with radiation therapy.
This is the cancer breakthrough you've never heard of.
As you will find elsewhere on this site, these results have been duplicated in 10 additional studies. There is no debate about these results. But, they have reversed 100 years of surgical practice. The advocates of radical surgery have been proven to be wrong. And they still support radical treatment if the tumor appears to be aggressive. Don't let these doctors frighten you into unnecessarily radical surgery.
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