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Score Another One for the Difference Feminists: Having a Female Surgeon May Save Your Life

By Ann Bartow

According to this NYT story, radiation treatment after a lumpectomy is considered a standard of quality cancer care and has been shown to reduce breast cancer recurrence and mortality. However, many women still don?t receive it. A study found that “women who received radiation were more likely to have a female surgeon.” Read more here.

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).