The technique of modified radical mastectomy.

The functional and cosmetic results of this modified radical mastectomy are superior to those achieved by standard radical mastectomy. The incidence of lymphedema of the ipsilateral arm, which is one of the feared complications from a standard radical mastectomy, appears to be decidedly less.

A ten year study of medullary carcinoma of the breast.

In this large series of patients treated for medullary carcinoma of the breast by radical mastectomy, the over-all five year survival rate was 63.7 per cent and the ten year survival rate, 49.5 per cent.

Preoperative bone scans. Use in women with early breast cancer.

Strontium nitrate Sr 87m bone scans were made preoperatively in a group of women with suspected breast cancer, 35 of whom subsequently underwent radical mastectomy. In 3 of the 35 (9%), the scans were abnormal despite the absence of clinical or roentgenographic evidence of metastatic disease. All three patients has extensive axillary lymph node involvement by tumor, and went on to have additional bone metastases, from which one died.