In the early 1970s, Dr. Vera Peters, radiation oncologist at Toronto's Pricess Margaret Hospital, discovered that women with early breast cancer could be cured with lumpectomy (removal of the tumour alone) rather than the standard mutilating radical mastestomy. She embarked on a quest to change surgical practice, but her ideas met with considerable skepticism and even hostility from the medical establishment, It was not until the end of her career that randomized trials confirmed her results and surgical practice started to change. Radical, a play about Dr. Vera Peters, was written by Charles Hayter. Dr. Hayter will be in attendance and will respond to audience questions.

Admission to this reading of Radical! is free, but seating is limited. Parking is available at lot 15B, Memorial University main campus, off Elizabeth Avenue, ($2 parking fee applies).