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Credit: Getty Images. The rate of contralateral breast cancer was higher in patients who underwent unilateral mastectomy and BCT than in patients who underwent bilateral mastectomy. The rate of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bilateral mastectomy reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer vs. other surgical options. Researchers ...

Since 2008, the rate of bilateral mastectomy among patients with early-stage breast cancer increased, decreased and finally stabilized with similar rates in 2020 as 2008, according to data published ...

A double mastectomy is a surgical procedure involving the removal of both breasts, often employed to treat or prevent breast cancer in individuals at high risk of the disease. However, recent research ...

A recent study of female breast cancer survivors shows that feelings toward body image were consistently worse among those who had a bilateral mastectomy vs breast-conserving surgery. “Among younger ...

In the face of a breast cancer diagnosis, women grapple with life-altering decisions. Among these, the choice to undergo a bilateral breast mastectomy – the surgical removal of both breasts – stands ...

Despite a significant increase in women with unilateral breast cancer who received a bilateral mastectomy, this study found no survival benefit compared with other treatment options. Although removing ...

The study sample included 661,270 women; after matching, 36,028 women were included in the 3 treatment groups. HealthDay News — For women with unilateral breast cancer, the risk of contralateral ...

Training overweight/obese older women at high risk for breast cancer to use web-based weight loss tools: The HELP pilot study. Background: BRRM otherwise known as prophylactic or preventive mastectomy ...

Sharpe and colleagues used the National Cancer Data Base to study the effect of bilateral mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer on length of hospital stay, readmission rate, 30-day mortality, and ...

Treating unilateral breast cancer with a bilateral mastectomy substantially reduced the risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with unilateral mastectomy or lumpectomy, yet not breast cancer ...