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Local Therapy Decision-Making and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in Young Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer.
Annals of surgical oncology - 1 Nov 2015
Rosenberg Shoshana M, Sepucha Karen, Ruddy Kathryn J, Tamimi Rulla M, Gelber Shari, Meyer Meghan E, Schapira Lidia, Come Steven E, Borges Virginia F, Golshan Mehra, Winer Eric P, Partridge Ann H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) have increased in the United States, with younger women with breast cancer the most likely to have CPM. METHODS: As part of an ongoing cohort study of young women diagnosed with breast cancer at age ≤40 years, we conducted multinomial logistic regression of data from 560 women with unilateral Stage I-III disease to identify factors associated with:...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anxiety
- Body Mass Index
- Breast Neoplasms
- Decision Making
- Directive Counseling
- Fear
- Female
- Genes, BRCA1