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Breast Cancer Survival and Double Mastectomy - TIME

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Since cancer in one breast tends to spread to the other, healthy breast, more and more women are choosing to remove both, just to be safe. But does such preventive surgery help survival?

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Tags: Cancer, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Surgery

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