“…Meyer and Smith (12), in their report on an unselected group of cases, noted an 8 per cent higher survival rate among patients treated with the simpler procedures than among patients who had undergone radical mastectomies. Small and Dutton (13), Byrd and Conerly (14), Orr (15), Garland (16), and Deaton and Bradshaw (17) have all come to similar conclusions. Moreover, Deaton (2), in a survey of the world literature, reported that the survival rate following simple mastectomy was 5 per cent higher than that following radical mastectomy.…”