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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy

From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy

Update: 2024-01-11

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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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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy

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