Having a double mastectomy may not offer any real benefit in terms of survival, a new study of more than 600,000 patients showed. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Women who are diagnosed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

April 16, 2009 — The number of women with unilateral ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in the United States has markedly increased from 1998 to 2005. A ...

For younger women with early-stage, noninherited breast cancer on one side, a unilateral, or single, mastectomy leads to a slightly higher quality of life and lower costs over the next 20 years ...

Among women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not ...

The use of bilateral mastectomy (the removal of both breasts) to treat unilateral breast cancer is becoming increasingly common. In fact, the The use of bilateral mastectomy (the removal of both ...

The use of bilateral mastectomy among women with early-stage breast cancer increased significantly since the late 1990s, but the procedure did reduce mortality compared with breast-conserving surgery ...

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 ...

Removing the assumption of a cumulative risk of metastasis for additional nonmetastatic cancer modifies the results, with CPM no longer cost-effective for patients 55 years of age or older. Excluding ...

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 ...