# 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.

*American surgical oncologist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jerome-urban

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1914
- **Died:** 1991
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 34.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.7 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 3.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 20.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 53.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Jerome Urban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Urban)
- [جيروم يوربان](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [Jerome Urban](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Urban)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6182950)

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