Discuss alternative surgical procedures for breast cancer

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Assignment:

Watch a 7-min episode of 2015 film by Ken Burns: Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.

1. Find Episode 2: The Blind Men and the Elephant:

2. In this episode, find a clip called Dr. Bernard Fisher (7 min 33 sec)

After watching the 7-min episode (see instructions below) draw the simplest conceptual model that helps explain how the physicians were thinking about the treatment of radical mastectomy. The model must be able to answer this question: Why was it so hard for the physicians to consider alternative surgical procedures for breast cancer?

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