Two articles: how surgery might promote breast cancer's distant

Two articles discuss potential risks of surgery on breast cancer patients. They may help women suffering from breast cancer. Due to copyright protection, I cannot copy the orginal text. Readers can download them for fair use.

 

 

A.

Does surgery unfavourably perturb the “natural history” of early breast cancer by accelerating the appearance of distant metastases?

Authors
Michael Baum, Romano Demicheli, William Hrushesky, Michael Retsky
Publication date
2005/3/1
Source
European Journal of Cancer
Volume
41
Issue
4
Pages
508-515
Publisher
Pergamon

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Retsky3/publication/7995488_Does_surgery_unfavourably_perturb_the_natural_history_of_early_breast_cancer_by_accelerating_the_appearance_of_distant_metastases/links/5d5ea0ce299bf1b97cfe0528/Does-surgery-unfavourably-perturb-the-natural-history-of-early-breast-cancer-by-accelerating-the-appearance-of-distant-metastases.pdf

B.

The effects of surgery on tumor growth: a century of investigations
R Demicheli, MW Retsky, WJM Hrushesky, M Baum, ID Gukas
Annals of oncology 19 (11), 1821-1828