April 16, 2008 — Women who carry the BRCA gene mutation have an estimated 85% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, but a prophylactic mastectomy reduces this risk to less than 1%, Dutch ...

Increasing usage of multigene panel testing has identified more patients with pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P or LP) variants in low-moderate penetrance genes or variants of uncertain significance ...

Although prophylactic mastectomy significantly reduces the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer, little is known about women's information needs before the procedure. We surveyed 967 women, from ...

The logic of CPM derives from the premise that a woman with a new unilateral breast cancer has a good or better chance of surviving the index cancer, that the systemic therapy used for the index ...

Consistent with previous research, data presented Friday has found that a woman diagnosed with breast cancer is more likely to undergo mastectomy of the healthy breast, called prophylactic mastectomy, ...

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Scientific reports suggest that women at risk for familial breast cancer may benefit from prophylactic mastectomy. However, few data are available about how women decide upon this clinical option, and ...

It wasn't surprising to me today to hear data that showed a large increase in women choosing prophylactic mastectomy on the side not affected by breast cancer. You can read the details of the study in ...

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 ...

Growing numbers of women with breast cancer in one breast are choosing to have preventive double mastectomies despite there being little evidence that the surgery actually improves quality of life for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-third of women aged 20 to 44 years who underwent surgery for invasive unilateral breast cancer ...