Fear drives young cancer patients to needless mastectomies

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After being diagnosed with cancer in one breast, many young women opt to have the other healthy breast removed with a procedure called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), despite knowing that it will probably not improve chances of survival, a new study shows. Researchers from the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute published their results in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine...

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