Guiding preventive mastectomy decisions aim of researchers
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found a new way to calculate which women with cancer in one breast are at highest risk of developing a tumour in the other. Their goal is to help better inform breast cancer survivors who are considering having their second breast removed as a precaution.
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