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Old 02-26-2010, 07:10 AM   #1
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Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Associated With Survival In Select Group Of Bre

Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a preventive procedure to remove the unaffected breast in patients with disease in one breast, may only offer a survival benefit to breast cancer patients age 50 and younger, who have early-stage disease and are estrogen receptor (ER) negative, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center...

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