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Abstract
A clinical classification of all mammary cancers into four stages is presented. The
exact requirements for each group are indicated. This classification appears simple,
rational, and practical. To us it has already been of inestimable service in more
than 200 cases. Such a classification is extremely valuable in simplifying statistical
reports of five-year cures, analyzed in the four standardized clinical stages of the
disease, and in outlining the proper plan of treatment and in prognosticating the
final outcome for each division. We believe that patients in Stage 1 and Stage 2 should
be treated by radical surgery and intensive (radical) irradiation. Those falling in
Stages 3 and 4 require x-rays or radium therapy or both, with or without conservative
surgery, if and when required.
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Publication history
Received:
September 3,
1938
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© 1939 Published by Elsevier Inc.
