New developments in radiotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer. Photo: Shutterstock
Developments in anaesthesia and better control of surgical infections and bleeding at the turn of the 20th century encouraged the practice of radical surgery for breast cancer in the United States.
The disfiguring Halstead radical mastectomy was a popular choice until the 1970s.
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