A multidisciplinary approach is needed

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J Michael Dixon,
R C F Leonard

Honorary senior lecturer in surgery Consultant medical oncologist Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh EH3 9YW

EDITOR,—Charles R Gillis and David J Hole provide support for the management of patients with breast cancer by surgeons with a specialist interest in breast disease.1 The number of centres advertising as having specialist breast surgeons has proliferated, but it is not clear whether all these units fulfil the definition of a specialist unit as defined by Gillis and Hole and by …