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Oncology

the view that breast cancer spreads in an orderly way from the primary tumor to regional nodes before reaching distant sites, justifying radical en bloc surgery.

In oncology, Halsted hypothesis refers to the view that breast cancer spreads in an orderly way from the primary tumor to regional nodes before reaching distant sites, justifying radical en bloc surgery. This meaning comes from Halsted (1894) in Annals of Surgery.[1]

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Halsted, W. S. (1894). The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894. Annals of Surgery, 20, 497-555. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-189407000-00075

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