Invasive cancer or extensive ductal carcinoma in situ is primarily treated with modified radical mastectomies.

About 10 percent of women used to complain of chronic pain following radical mastectomies.

Although radical mastectomies are rarely done today, experts say the Italian findings should be equally valid for patients treated with less extensive surgery.

American health insurance companies also paid surgeons more to perform radical mastectomies than they did to perform more intricate breast-sparing surgeries.

Lane-Claypon was hired to review the existing literature on breast cancer with an emphasis on its surgical treatment (primarily radical mastectomies).

To the Editor: I've had bilateral radical mastectomies dating back to 1961.

When she was ten, eleven, her mother got breast cancer, underwent two radical mastectomies.

A newspaper article about women without cancer going for radical mastectomies.

Mrs. Kushner said she was concerned that other women would also select modified radical mastectomies.

He also began to question the routine prescription of radical mastectomies in the 1940's and advocated lumpectomies combined with radiation and drug therapy.