The Symposium is open to anyone who would like the most recent information
about genetic breast cancer: high risk individuals, or if you have a personal or
family history of cancer, those with a BRCA mutation and health care providers.
So, I leave you with Martina Navratilova's own words, "My message to you and other women out there is to be diligent about getting mammograms........"
As I was persuing the New York Times March 9th, I came across an article discussing an increasing trend towards women with breast cancer wanting to remove their other healthy breast (prophylactic mastectomy). As a breast surgeon it is not only important to give women with breast cancer all of their surgical options, but to understand the emotional and psychological aspects of their decision making process. While it is true that removing a healthy breast in a woman diagnosed with breast cancer does not impact overall survival, there are many other issues at play that can be addressed by prophyalctic surgery.
Since 1990, mammography screening starting at age 40 has lowered the death rate from advanced breast cancer by 30% in the US. Early detection has also allowed women the option of less radical/invasive treatments, which has helped to improve the quality of life of those women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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