Source: British Medical Journal, 2/20/2009, Editorial: Minimally invasive surgery for breast cancer
Dr. Monica Morrow, Chief of the Breast Cancer Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY, has raised concerns that for the past 30 years, surgery has been increasingly devoted to improving cosmetic outcomes. Her concern is that failure to demand rigorous evaluation of oncological outcomes and cosmetic ones runs the risk of losing some of the survival gains observed in the past decade.
“The local treatment of breast cancer is based on the results of numerous high quality clinical trials and is, therefore, a model for evidence based care. As we attempt to advance from good to great cosmetic outcomes, it is important that we remember this,” Dr. Morrow concludes.
posted by David Marc Schwadron, Esq.
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