Friday, May 16, 2008

Why Are More Breast Cancer Patients Having Mastectomies?

The percentage of breast-cancer patients choosing to have an entire breast removed is increasing, and it’s not entirely clear why, Mayo Clinic doctors say.
In 1990, the NIH said that for women with early-stage disease, a mastectomy (removing the entire breast) was basically equivalent to removing a lump from the breast combined with radiation therapy. That prompted mastectomy [...]

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