Abstract
EDITOR,—Several points need to be made before there is a wholesale switch to conservative surgery for breast cancer.1 I find the proposal that tumours up to 4 cm in diameter are suitable for conservation surgery extremely worrying. Whenever new and apparently less radical treatment becomes available it is important that patients should be carefully selected. Experience in Nottingham suggested that tumour size of over 2 cm was a risk factor for local …
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