Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy associated with survival in select breast cancer patients
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 08:43
in Health & Medicine
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a preventive procedure to remove the unaffected breast in patients with disease in one breast, may only offer a survival benefit to breast cancer patients age 50 and younger, who have early-stage disease and are oestrogen receptor (ER) negative, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre...