Fiona Conway-Jones | Cancer Research UK

Our milestones: A radical change that improved breast cancer surgery

Category: Science blog
October 2, 2017
Fiona Conway-Jones
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6 minute read

This entry is part 28 of 30 in the series Our milestones

The results of a breast cancer trial we helped fund allowed surgeons to move away from ‘radical’ mastectomies towards kinder, less invasive surgeries.

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