Jerome Urban
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.{{Cite news |last=Narvaez |first=Alfonso A. |date=1991-06-15 |title=Dr. Jerome Urban, 77, Surgeon Who Specialized in Breast Cancer |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/15/obituaries/dr-jerome-urban-77-surgeon-who-specialized-in-breast-cancer.html |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite book
|author=Olson, James Stuart
|title=Bathsheba's breast: women, cancer & history
|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press
|location=Baltimore
|year=2002
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bathshebasbreast00olso/page/75 75]
|isbn=0-8018-6936-6
|oclc=
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/bathshebasbreast00olso/page/75
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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.