Patients' Worry, Not Risk, Drives Double Mastectomies
November 28, 2012|Family Medicine
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"Many women fear recurrence, and they also fear surveillance. They worry about, if they’re 35 years old, what a lifetime of screening for the contralateral breast might look like if they end up getting multiple biopsies. So how we put that in perspective for our young population will become vitally important," said Dr. Patell, a thoracic oncologist at Northwestern University in Chicago and a member of ASCO’s Cancer Communications Committee.
Dr. Hawley reported having no financial disclosures.
