April 16, 2008 — Women who carry the BRCA gene mutation have an estimated 85% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, but a prophylactic mastectomy reduces this risk to less than 1%, Dutch ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-third of women aged 20 to 44 years who underwent surgery for invasive unilateral breast cancer ...

Although prophylactic mastectomy significantly reduces the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer, little is known about women's information needs before the procedure. We surveyed 967 women, from ...

The choice to remove a healthy breast in order to avoid breast cancer is a deeply personal decision that appears to be on the upswing in one group of women, according to a study published today in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, the use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy among women without clinical indications appeared ...

Double-Blind Phase III Trial of Adjuvant Chemotherapy With and Without Bevacizumab in Patients With Lymph Node–Positive and High-Risk Lymph Node–Negative Breast Cancer (E5103) These results may ...

The logic of CPM derives from the premise that a woman with a new unilateral breast cancer has a good or better chance of surviving the index cancer, that the systemic therapy used for the index ...

Consistent with previous research, data presented Friday has found that a woman diagnosed with breast cancer is more likely to undergo mastectomy of the healthy breast, called prophylactic mastectomy, ...

It wasn't surprising to me today to hear data that showed a large increase in women choosing prophylactic mastectomy on the side not affected by breast cancer. You can read the details of the study in ...

Scientific reports suggest that women at risk for familial breast cancer may benefit from prophylactic mastectomy. However, few data are available about how women decide upon this clinical option, and ...

Undergoing prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PSO) after previous surgery for BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer was associated with a significantly reduced risk of death, according to an Italian ...

Many women diagnosed with cancer in one breast consider, and eventually undergo, a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy to remove both breasts, although few of them have a clinically significant risk ...