The study sample included 661,270 women; after matching, 36,028 women were included in the 3 treatment groups. HealthDay News — For women with unilateral breast cancer, the risk of contralateral ...

Having a double mastectomy may not offer any real benefit in terms of survival, a new study of more than 600,000 patients showed. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Women who are diagnosed with ...

Researchers from Canada’s Women’s College Hospital evaluated breast cancer mortality risk among more than 660,000 women with unilateral breast cancer in the U.S. The patients were divided into three ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bilateral mastectomy reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer vs. other surgical options. Researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Since 2008, the rate of bilateral mastectomy among patients with early-stage breast cancer increased, decreased ...

Credit: Getty Images. The rate of contralateral breast cancer was higher in patients who underwent unilateral mastectomy and BCT than in patients who underwent bilateral mastectomy. The rate of ...

When Katerine Gagnon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 at the age of 42, she was told she would need a mastectomy — the amputation of her breast and removal of all of its tissue — in order to ...

A double mastectomy is a surgical procedure involving the removal of both breasts, often employed to treat or prevent breast cancer in individuals at high risk of the disease. However, recent research ...

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Treating unilateral breast cancer with a bilateral mastectomy substantially reduced the risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with unilateral mastectomy or lumpectomy, yet not breast cancer ...