Patients requesting prophylactic mastectomies overestimate their breast cancer risk

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 08:56 in Health & Medicine

Barcelona, Spain: Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer believe the risk of the disease occurring in their unaffected breast is as much as ten times higher than it actually is. As a...

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