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A preventive mastectomy involves removing both of your breasts. This greatly reduces your risk of developing breast cancer in the future. However, it does ...
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Risk-reducing mastectomies offer the highest method of prevention against future breast cancers for patients who have a gene mutation. Although mastectomies do ...
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20, 2023. Jakub JW, et al. Oncological safety of prophylactic nipple-sparing mastectomy in a population with BRCA mutations. JAMA Surgery. 2018; doi:10.1001/ ...
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Individuals with a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, such as the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, may opt for a mastectomy as a preventive measure ...
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No breast cancers developed in the retained skin, nipples, or lymph nodes on the side of the prophylactic procedure. Seven women died from breast cancer during ...
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This procedure is called a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy. It might be an option if you have a high risk of getting cancer in the other breast. The ...
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Mayo physicians are studying the personal consequences of contralateral prophylactic mastectomies to help future patients. Women with breast cancer have many ...
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“Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy is a growing trend that has generated significant discussion among physicians, patients, breast cancer advocates and ...
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One option might be surgery to remove the breasts, called prophylactic mastectomy. Another option is surgery to remove the ovaries, called prophylactic ...
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... preventive surgeries. Examples of this type of ... prophylactic mastectomy, and removing ovaries before they have cancer, called prophylactic oophorectomy.