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Risk-Reducing Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction: Indications and Evidence for Current Management Strategies.
Clinics in plastic surgery - 1 Jan 2018
Eisemann Bradley S, Spiegel Aldona J
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Breast cancer affects nearly every woman either personally or through a family member or friend. Awareness of associated familial and genetic risks has been steadily increasing over the last decade. Bilateral risk-reduction mastectomy seeks to decrease the incidence and mortality of breast cancer in women without abnormality but with elevated risk of developing cancer. Contralateral risk-reduction mastectomy aims...
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