Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Overtreatment: Expectations from Personal Genomics for Tailored Breast Cancer Surgery
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Predictors for contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in breast cancer patients.
BACKGROUND In recent years, radical breast cancer surgery has been largely replaced by breast conservation treatment, due to early diagnosis and more effective adjuvant treatment. While breast conservation is mostly preferred, the trend of bilateral mastectomy has risen in the United States. The aim of this study is to determine factors influencing patients' choice for having contralateral prop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgical Oncology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1068-9265,1534-4681
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0848-z