Jerome Urban
American surgical oncologist
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| Intro | American surgical oncologist | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Scientist Oncologist | |
| Work field | Healthcare Science | |
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Biography
Jerome Urban (1914-1991) was an American surgical oncologist who promoted superradical mastectomies until 1963, when the lack of difference in ten-year survival rates convinced him that it worked no better than the less-mutilating radical mastectomy.
Education
Born in Brooklyn, he attended Andrew College and then Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a resident in the surgical oncology program of Memorial Sloan-Kettering under George T. Pack.