Trends in the use of bilateral mastectomy in England from 2002 to 2011: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics

OBJECTIVES: For healthy women at high risk of developing breast cancer, a bilateral mastectomy can reduce future risk. For women who already have unilateral breast cancer, removing the contralateral healthy breast is more difficult to justify. We examined trends in the number of women who had a bila...

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Autores principales: Neuburger, Jenny, MacNeill, Fiona, Jeevan, Ranjeet, van der Meulen, Jan H P, Cromwell, David A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23906951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003179

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3733300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23906951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003179

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