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- Title
Marginal life expectancy benefit from contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the effectiveness of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) among women with breast cancer, which was investigated by Pamela R. Portschy and colleagues at the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery. Topics discussed include findings after subjecting data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry on a model simulating patients' survival outcomes and the concern raised by Stephen G. Pauker and Mohamed Alseiari of Tufts Medical Center.
- Subjects
MASTECTOMY; CANCER prevention; BREAST cancer treatment; LONG-term care for cancer patients; CANCER research
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014, Vol 106, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/dju236