Study explores how women make decisions about breast cancer surgery

Monday, October 26, 2009 - 15:14 in Health & Medicine

For women just diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the important decisions confronting them is whether to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. A diagnosis of breast cancer will affect one in every eight women in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society, causing them to have to decide quickly about treatment.

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