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Vera Peters
(1911-1993)
Mother of the Modern Mastectomy
When she was told to “go do women’s work” after upstaging the medical community in her treatment of Hodgkin’s disease, Dr. Vera Peters revolutionized breast cancer treatment through years of painstaking, meticulous work.
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