Study examines risk factors for cancer in unaffected breast of breast cancer patients

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 09:50 in Health & Medicine

A new study identifies certain patient and tumour characteristics that may help indicate which breast cancer patients would be the most likely to benefit from preventive surgery to remove the unaffected breast. Published in the 1 March 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study could help patients with breast cancer make more informed treatment choices...

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