| Abstract: | Simple mastectomy was used to treat 111 women with invasive mammary carcinoma. In none of eighteen patients with cancer clinically confined to the breast did local recurrence develop after simple mastectomy, but metastases developed in the axilla in three. Adjuvant irradiation, castration, or drug therapy did not improve the survival or ultimate local control achieved by simple mastectomy.No significant difference was demonstrated in survival after simple and radical mastectomy for comparable clinical stages of disease. |
