Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy
Ramaswami R
New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 377, Issue 13, Page 1288-1291, September 2017.
CASE VIGNETTE
A Woman Considering Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy
A 51-year-old woman who has recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer, and she comes to you to seek your opinion about her surgical options. Three weeks earlier, she had undergone mammography and magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate a mass in the left breast. She has been told that she has a 3-cm triple-negative (i.e., negative for estrogen and progesterone receptors and for overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 [HER2]) invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. The breast cancer is at clinical stage IIA or T2N0M0 .......
