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Introducción. La mastectomía profiláctica contralateral (MPC) ha sido evaluada como estrategia para la reducción del riesgo de cáncer de mama contralateral (CMC) en pacientes con un cáncer de mama esporádico (es decir, sin mutaciones en los principales genes asociados al cáncer de mama hereditario, y sin una fuerte historia familiar) 1.
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Breast cancer can be found by mammogram, by a woman feeling a lump or by a doctor’s exam. To find breast cancer, it is important to: Do monthly self breast exams. Have a yearly exam by your doctor if you are over 40. These are done less often for younger women. Have a mammogram each year after age.
Las metástasis axilares contralaterales en el cáncer de mama constituyen un hecho poco frecuente, y pueden corres-ponder tanto a la manifestación de una enfermedad sistémica (estadío IV) como a una metástasis de un cáncer primario ocul-to ipsilateral (TxN1, estadío II).
20 lip 2005 · Contralateral breast cancer (CBC) is the most common second primary cancer in patients diagnosed with breast cancer. 1 Patients with a history of breast cancer have an increased risk of developing a second primary breast cancer (PBC), with an annual risk of 0.5% to 1% or a cumulative lifetime risk of 2% to 15%. 2 Because breast cancer is the ...
Breast cancer screening programs (BC-SPs) are based on performing diagnostic tests (mammograms) on apparently healthy women with the aim of distinguishing those who are likely to have breast cancer from those who are not likely not to. This is se-condary prevention measure, the goals of which include reducing the number of in-
A cancer in the contralateral breast in a woman with a previous or synchronous breast cancer is typically considered to be an independent primary tumor. Emerging evidence suggests that in a small subset of these cases the second tumor represents a metastasis.
