Video: Lumpectomy tops mastectomy in cancer treatment study

Monday, January 28, 2013 - 20:20 in Health & Medicine

A study in the journal "Cancer" has found that women are 14 percent less likely to die from breast cancer after undergoing a lumpectomy followed by radiation treatment than after a mastectomy. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

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