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The studies Dr. Fisher led compared survival rates among women who had undergone radical mastectomies, simple mastectomies in which only the breast was removed, and lumpectomies in which only the tumor was excised.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

The surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center were so stubborn that they went on disfiguring their patients with radical mastectomies for years after Fisher’s data had shown the procedure to be unnecessary.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 14, 2015

It wasn’t so long ago that women fought to keep their breasts after a cancer diagnosis, lobbying surgeons to forgo radical mastectomies for equally effective lumpectomies with radiation.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2013

Among the women who had mastectomies during the 14-year study period, 45 percent had total mastectomies, 34.7 percent had modified radical mastectomies and 0.8 percent had radical mastectomies.

From Washington Post

Of 81 women who had radical mastectomies between 1955 and 1965, 70.4% were alive five years after the operations.

From Time Magazine Archive