ABSTRACT
This paper presents results of different combinations of surgery and radiotherapy treatment for carcinoma of the breast based on a personal series of 118 cases treated between 1930 and 1943 and followed up to the end of 1946. The authors concluded that a modified radical operation in which the pectoralis major was preserved produces results that are as good as a standard radical mastectomy. Patey and Dyson reported that partial mastectomy combined with axillary dissection was justifiable in occasional early cases with small cancers and that simple mastectomy combined with irradiation to the axilla gave as satisfactory results as a modified radical mastectomy, but they noted that irradiation was generally more upsetting to the patient than surgical dissection of the axilla.
