Does mastectomy/lumpectomy cure breast cancer ?
Breast cancer: does mastectomy/lumpectomy “cure cancer”? by Pat Bafford, First Financial Resources, 2360 W. Joppa Road, Suite 310, Lutherville, MD 21093, Phone: (410) 832-2400, Fax: (410) 832-2410, Email: pat at ffr-md.com Published by Healing Cancer Naturally with permission of the author Copyright Notice I … completely disagree that any form of surgery used alone for breast cancer, whether mastectomy or lumpectomy is effective in curing cancer. I have read numerous accounts and personally known many women who had a lumpectomy with “clear margins” and then the cancer returned elsewhere a few years later. How can this be if the cancer was completely contained in the tumor with no spread to other parts of the body and the tumor was removed? The answer is how natural medicine views cancer vs. how mainstream medicine views cancer. Mainstream medicine views cancer as the tumor; in fact, oncology means the study of tumors. Therefore, once the tumor is removed, the cancer is cured. However
