Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

Many women at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer are choosing to undergo surgery as a precautionary measure to decrease their cancer risk, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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