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Growth Behavior and Implications for Staging and Therapy

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In accordance with the concept of breast cancer as a primarily loco-regional disease, a type of therapy was developed that quickly became linked with the names of Halsted (1894), Steinthal (1905) and, in the German-speaking countries, Rotter (1896), and was accepted throughout the world for many years.

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  1. Women’s Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Voßstr. 9, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    F. Kubli  & M. Kaufmann  & 

  2. Department of Gynecological Radiology, University Women’s Hospital, Hugstetterstr. 5, D-7800, Freiburg/Brsg., Germany

    M. Bauer

  3. Women’s Hospital and Clinic of Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Voßstr. 9, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    D. von Fournier  & H. Junkermann  & 

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von Fournier, D. (1989). Growth Behavior and Implications for Staging and Therapy. In: Kubli, F., Bauer, M., Kaufmann, M., von Fournier, D., Junkermann, H. (eds) Breast Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73523-3_15

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