Dr. Barry Dworkin

Long-term invasive breast cancer survival does not improve with prophylactic removal of the unaffected healthy breast

Health Headlines Commentary for March 14, 2016

Source:

Removing breasts to prevent cancer is doing thousands of women more harm than good, study says

Reference:

Growing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Despite no Improvement in Long-term Survival for Invasive Breast Cancer.

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