A new Canadian study is now suggesting that for women with breast cancer and the BRCA mutation, a double mastectomy could cut the risk of dying from their sickness in half. “Hopefully with this research, we can start to think about changing our ideas about what surgical treatment a woman should have. We need to think about treating their first breast cancer but also preventing that second breast cancer,” lead researcher Dr. Kelly Metcalfe told Global News. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Metcalfe K, et al. Contralateral mastectomy and survival after breast cancer in carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations: retrospective analysis. BMJ. 2014 Feb 11;348:g226. PMID: 24519767
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