Preventive mastectomy

Preventive mastectomy
SpecialtyGeneral surgeon/plastic surgeon

A preventive mastectomy or prophylactic mastectomy or risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) is an elective operation to remove the breasts so that the risk of breast cancer is reduced.[1][2]

  1. ^ Mayo Clinic staff. "Prophylactic mastectomy: Surgery to reduce breast cancer risk". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
  2. ^ NIH staff. "Preventive Mastectomy". National Cancer Institute. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
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