Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Fwd: Weighing Surgical Options for Breast Cancer


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09/16/2014 09:00 AM EDT

An increasing number of women with cancer in one breast are choosing to have both breasts surgically removed in hopes of reducing the chance of developing cancer in the unaffected breast. But does this approach—called bilateral, or double, mastectomy—really improve the odds of survival? A new NIH-funded study indicates that, for the vast majority of […]

 


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