Hereditary Breast Cancer: Some Women Choose Mastectomy Over Life...

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 04/16/2008 - 01:00

Some women who carry the BRCA gene mutation, which predisposes to breast cancer, may choose to have a prophylactic mastectomy rather than undertake lifetime surveillance.

In addition, that the costs of screening for BRCA carriers are very high, and even more so because the MRI that is used can have a high false positive rate, leading to further investigations.

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