Breast conservation surgery versus total mastectomy among women with localized breast cancer in Soweto, South Africa.

<h4>Purpose</h4>Breast conserving surgery (BCS) has become the preferred surgical option for the management of patients with nonmetastatic breast cancer in high-income countries. However, little is known about the distribution and determinants of BCS in low-and middle-income countries, e...

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Main Authors: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Donald Dietz, Evan Rosenbaum, Nivashni Murugan, Ming Tsai Chih, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Caroline Dickens, Katherine Crew, Judith S Jacobson, Alfred Neugut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182125&type=printable