More women with breast cancer opt to remove healthy one, study finds

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 19:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers find a rising trend in prophylactic mastectomy among women with breast cancer, even though there is no data that it actually improves survival. The choice to remove a healthy breast in order to avoid breast cancer is a deeply personal decision -- one that appears to be on the upswing in a specific segment of cancer patients, although there's little evidence to...

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