Patients Requesting Prophylactic Mastectomies Overestimate Their Breast Cancer Risk A

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Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer believe the risk of the disease occurring in their unaffected breast is as much as ten times higher than it actually is. As a result, they are choosing to have prophylactic mastectomies based on a false perception of increased risk, according to new research...

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