Abstract
During the last twenty years the treatment of carcinoma of the breast has developed from a purely surgical into a surgical-radiological problem. There can be no denying the fact that a sufficient number of carefully compiled statistics have been published demonstrating the value of postoperative irradiation in cases where metastases were present at the time of operation. We freely admit that the role of preoperative roentgen therapy in carcinoma of the breast has not yet been definitely established and likewise that it is too early to determine the effect of routine sterilization by roentgen rays in carcinoma of the breast in women in the preclimacteric age group. In September 1940 Hidde et al. (1) published a statistical analysis of 318 patients with mammary carcinoma admitted to the State of Wisconsin General Hospital from 1924 to 1936, based on the status on July 1, 1938. They found that of 177 patients who received primary treatment at the University Hospital 30.4 per cent were still living, with obse...
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