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Article: Women with early-stage breast cancer increasingly having double mastectomies.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- April 10, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, April 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that more and more women, diagnosed with the earliest stage of breast cancer, are choosing to have both breasts surgically removed.
Dr. Todd Tuttle, an associate professor of Oncologic Surgery, has observed that the rate of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) surgery among U.S. women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) increased by 188 percent between 1998 and 2005.
"The 10-year survival rate for women with DCIS is 98 to 99 percent. Therefore, removal of the normal contralateral breast will not improve the excellent survival rates for this ...