Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxb!hrs From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) Newsgroups: net.med,net.women Subject: Re: Breast Cancer Treatment. Message-ID: <673@homxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 11:45:03 EDT Article-I.D.: homxb.673 Posted: Mon Jul 15 11:45:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 05:57:26 EDT References: <1765@aecom.UUCP>, <1271@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.med:1712 net.women:6412 While it seems objectionable and unfair to evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatments by assigning patients randomly to groups, there is no alternative if the evaluation is to be done correctly. While there were some previous claims that radical mastectomies were no better than lumpctomies, there was no proof, and thus the old treatment continued. Herman silbiger