| Summary: | Carcinoma of the breast is second in rank among all caucasian women suffering from cancer (42). First in rank is carcinoma of the uterus. In some reports (59), carcinoma of the breast ranked first; such is the case in New York state. The five year survival rate in operable breast carcinoma, by radical mastectomy is around f.fty per cent. This 5 year survival rate improves to seventy-five per cent if there are no regional or distant metastases and falls to around thirty per cent if the axillary lymph nodes are involved by metastatic disease. This tact stresses the importance of early diagnosis and treatment in carcinoma of the breast. Every year 25,000 American women die of cancer of the breast. This is a crude mortality rate of 24.6 per 100,000 for the United States (42). We cannot seem to lower this figure with any known method of diagnosis or treatment.
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