Women with breast cancer have more treatment options both to treat cancer, reduce risk, as well as reconstruction, but there remains a lack of understanding over how some of these treatments compare to others over the long term. Now, a new study from the Duke Cancer Institute suggests that for certain women, double mastectomies-which are …
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Educational materials resulting from the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act (H.R. 5937) would inform women that breast reconstruction is possible at the time of breast cancer surgery; that it may be delayed until after other treatments; or that they may choose not to have reconstruction and be informed of the availability of prostheses or breast …
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