Growing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Despite no Improvement in Long-term Survival for Invasive Breast Cancer

M. Wong, Stephanie; A. Freedman, Rachel; Sagara, Yasuaki; Aydoğan, Fatih; T. Barry, William; Golshan, Mehra

doi:10.1097/sla.0000000000001698

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Growing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Despite no Improvement in Long-term Survival for Invasive Breast Cancer

Published in Annals of Surgery • Mar 10, 2016

Authors:

Stephanie M. Wong

Rachel A. Freedman

Yasuaki Sagara

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To update and examine national temporal trends in contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) and determine whether survival differed for invasive breast cancer patients based on hormone receptor (HR) status and age. METHODS: We identified women diagnosed with unilateral stage I to III br...

Subject

Medicine

Breast cancer

Mastectomy

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