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  1. Mastectomy - Mayo Clinic

    A preventive mastectomy involves removing both of your breasts. This greatly reduces your risk of developing breast cancer in the future. However, it does ...

  2. Breast cancer surgery - Mayo Clinic

    Breast cancer prevention. A preventive mastectomy is surgery to prevent breast cancer. It involves removing the breast tissue from both breasts in someone ...

  3. Mastectomy Surgery in Patients with BRCA Gene Mutations - Mayo Clinic

    Risk-reducing mastectomies offer the highest method of prevention against future breast cancers for patients who have a gene mutation. Although mastectomies do ...

  4. Most Breast Cancer Patients Who Had Healthy Breast Removed at Peace with Decision - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Mayo physicians are studying the personal consequences of contralateral prophylactic mastectomies to help future patients. Women with breast cancer have many ...

  5. Mayo Clinic Q and A: How to decide which breast cancer surgery is right for you

    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 ...

  6. Breast cancer - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    One option might be surgery to remove the breasts, called prophylactic mastectomy. Another option is surgery to remove the ovaries, called prophylactic ...

  7. Breast cancer - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

    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 ...

  8. Protective Mastectomies that Preserve Nipple Safe for Women at High Breast Cancer Risk - Mayo Clinic News Network

    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 ...

  9. Mayo Clinic Minute: Nipple-sparing mastectomy, pre-pectoral reconstruction

    Research shows the nipple-sparing surgery is a safe choice for women with BRCA mutations being offered preventative mastectomy. Findings from a Mayo Clinic ...

  10. High Risk Breast Clinic

    ... preventive surgeries. Examples of this type of ... prophylactic mastectomy, and removing ovaries before they have cancer, called prophylactic oophorectomy.