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Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer: Review of the literature

The high incidence and recurrence rate of breast cancer has influenced multiple strategies such as early detection with imaging, chemoprevention and surgical interventions that serve as preventive measures for women at high risk. Prophylactic mastectomy is one of the growing strategies of breast can...

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Autores principales: Alaofi, Rawan K., Nassif, Mohammed O., Al-Hajeili, Marwan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090744
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_21_18
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description The high incidence and recurrence rate of breast cancer has influenced multiple strategies such as early detection with imaging, chemoprevention and surgical interventions that serve as preventive measures for women at high risk. Prophylactic mastectomy is one of the growing strategies of breast cancer risk reduction that is of a special importance for breast cancer gene mutation carriers. Women with personal history of cancerous breast lesions may consider ipsilateral or contralateral mastectomy as well. Existing data showed that mastectomy effectively reduces breast cancer risk. However, careful risk estimation is necessary to wisely select individuals who will benefit from preventing breast cancer.
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spelling pubmed-60571652018-08-08 Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer: Review of the literature Alaofi, Rawan K. Nassif, Mohammed O. Al-Hajeili, Marwan R. Avicenna J Med Review Article The high incidence and recurrence rate of breast cancer has influenced multiple strategies such as early detection with imaging, chemoprevention and surgical interventions that serve as preventive measures for women at high risk. Prophylactic mastectomy is one of the growing strategies of breast cancer risk reduction that is of a special importance for breast cancer gene mutation carriers. Women with personal history of cancerous breast lesions may consider ipsilateral or contralateral mastectomy as well. Existing data showed that mastectomy effectively reduces breast cancer risk. However, careful risk estimation is necessary to wisely select individuals who will benefit from preventing breast cancer. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6057165/ /pubmed/30090744 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_21_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090744
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_21_18
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