Getting Both Breasts Removed Might Not Increase a Breast Cancer Patient’s Chance of Survival


When faced with breast cancer in one breast, increasingly more women are opting to undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a surgery to remove the unaffected breast. But a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that getting both breasts removed when only one breast has cancer might not lengthen your life.

Read the article at WomensHealthMag.com


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