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- Title
Increasing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: A Counterintuitive Trend.
- Authors
Whitehead, Joseph Brown
- Abstract
The article discusses the increasing use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) in breast cancer. He refers to a report stating that some patients who underwent CPM, feels less sense of sexuality. He argues that physicians and surgeons must know their limits in supporting prophylactic surgery. He also expresses that the increasing use of CPM is distressing, when there's systematic therapy that could successfully treat breast cancer.
- Subjects
MASTECTOMY; ADJUVANT treatment of cancer; BREAST cancer surgery; ONCOLOGIC surgery complications; CANCER in women; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Oncology (08909091), 2008, Vol 22, Issue 5, p548
- ISSN
0890-9091
- Publication type
Article