Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy associated with survival in select breast cancer patients
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 21:28
in Health & Medicine
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, 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 estrogen receptor negative, according to researchers.