Significats de prophylactic mastectomy en anglès

They may opt for yearly breast cancer surveillance or for prophylactic mastectomy.

Preference for prophylactic mastectomy was registered at first surveillance after the mutation carriership was revealed.

Three of the 214 women are known to have developed a breast cancer after prophylactic mastectomy.

Background: Intensive screening is an alternative to prophylactic mastectomy in women at high risk for developing breast carcinoma.

By comparison, 25 percent to 40 percent have a prophylactic mastectomy.

However, for chemoprevention to be equivalent to prophylactic mastectomy, it will be necessary to strive for an equivalent reduction.

In patients with primary breast cancer there is no evidence that contralateral breast biopsies or contralateral prophylactic mastectomy reduce mortality.

Estimations of the effectiveness of prophylactic mastectomy were performed, considering this woman as both a mutation carrier and a noncarrier.

Last year actress Angelina Jolie went public with her decision to undergo prophylactic mastectomy after she tested positive for a BRCA mutation.

There was an increase in mastectomy, bilateral resection, immediate reconstruction, and prophylactic mastectomy from 2005 to 2011.

One extreme situation of this kind was the request for prophylactic mastectomy made by a mutation free woman from a high risk family.

Conclusion: AFT does not impair assessment of mammograms and ultrasound in patients who have a history of breast cancer surgery or prophylactic mastectomy.

Background: An increasing trend in the use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) for the treatment of unilateral breast cancer has been observed nationally.

Malignancy was detected in 17 women: 11 at surveillance, 4 at an intended prophylactic mastectomy and 2 had an interval cancer.

Methods: We obtained blood samples from 176 of the 214 high-risk women who participated in our previous retrospective cohort study of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy.

Prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy are offered to women at a high risk.