Werner A. Kaiser

2008

A teacher of mine once said, “If we had a diagnostic method that enabled us to detect and remove all breast cancers 5 to 10 mm in size, we could practically eliminate breast cancer deaths.” Large screening studies in Scandinavia and other countries have documented the truth of this statement. The 20-year survival rate is very high (over 95%) when the initial tumor size is less than 1 cm.