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Regional differences in surgical management of breast cancer
R T Osteen1, G D Steele, H R Menck
1Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
CA: a Cancer Journal for Clinicians
|January 11, 1992
Abstract:
Data voluntarily submitted to the NCDB by 597 hospitals throughout the US indicate marked variations in the type of surgery used for the treatment of breast cancer. Patients in New England with early stage breast cancer are much more likely to be treated with partial mastectomy than are patients in the East South Central or West North Central regions.