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Extra Mastectomies Don't Benefit Most Women: Study

(InteliHealth) UPDATED 2010-03-08
Many women who undergo a mastectomy on one breast choose to have the other removed as well, but this preventive measure does not appear to be beneficial to the majority of women who undergo it, a new study suggests. An analysis of more than 100,000 patients found that only 6 percent of women who'd had the second mastectomy benefited from it. And researchers found that those who benefited had a particular breast cancer profile that can be identified by doctors--namely that they were under the age of 50, and in the early stages of estrogen receptor negative cancer.  Read full story >
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