From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy
Canadian Radiation Oncologist Vera Peters pioneered the use of lumpectomies and postoperative radiation to treat breast cancer patients.
January 11, 202412m 32s
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Show Notes
Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. She used techniques that had seen positive outcomes on Hodgkin’s to treat breast cancer patients, and she discovered a treatment that was equally effective and much less invasive than the radical mastectomy, saving hundreds of thousands of women from that life-altering surgery.
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