IN THE field of cancer we have seen the emergence of many radical ideas about treatment. Most of them, like Lysenko's concepts of evolution, were soon forgotten. I refer to the routine use of radical total pneumonectomy for cancer of the lung, radical prostatectomy for stage I and II prostatic cancer, total gastrectomy for cancers of the distal part of the stomach, total thyroidectomy and classical radical neck dissection for all papillary carcinomas of the thyroid, and the extended radical mastectomy for medial quadrant cancers of the breast. I believe that the conventional radical mastectomy also will follow Lysenko's theory—on the path to oblivion. To me, the most disturbing part of Anglem's paper is his almost paranoid criticism of all who do not agree with him, especially his personal and bitter attack on Dr. Vera Peters. Fortunately, Peters' reputation can stand by itself, for it was she who first conceived