Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy offers limited gains for breast cancer patients

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) -- Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a procedure that removes the unaffected breast in patients with cancer in one breast, provides only a modest increase in life...

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