Women with cancer in one breast have the option to have both breasts removed, as a precaution. However, new research finds that these patients are no less likely to die from breast cancer than women who have only the affected breast or the tumor inside it removed.
The recent study looked at data from more than 660,000 women of various ethnicities in a large U.S. cancer registry. The women were 58 years old, on average, and all had been diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer, meaning cancer in one breast.
