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- Title
How Big Is Big Enough? Thinking About Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy.
- Authors
Pauker, Stephen G.; Alseiari, Mohamed
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of big data on assessing the effectiveness of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, which was the theme of Portschy and colleagues' study that made use of a Markov model to assess the outcome for those who underwent and those opted not to undergo the surgery. Topics discussed include the findings of the study, as well as its limitations like the authors' failure to factor in economic aspects of the surgery and the .
- Subjects
MASTECTOMY; BIG data; BREAST cancer surgery; CANCER treatment; MEDICAL care
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014, Vol 106, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/dju175