Abstract:Background: Surgical treatment for breast cancer is often a preference sensitive decision. The American Society of Breast Surgeons 2016 Choosing Wisely recommendation discourages routine contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). The purpose of this abstract is to analyze trends and factors that may be contributing to increasing utilization of CPM in the setting of unilateral breast cancer in the National Cancer Database (NCDB) from 2004-2013.
Methods: The NCDB is a national database of the Am… Show more
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