Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Consensus Statement & Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Shared Decision Making

The American Society of Breast Surgery have produced a comprehensive review of the literature on Contralateral Mastectomy in patients with unilateral cancers (called prophylactic mastectomy in their papers). There is also a paper on shared decision making with patients. The cost of surveillance versus surgery and the psychosocial impact of surgery and the importance of shared decision making are discussed. ABS supports the advice contained in the above document. There is also an ABS summary statement designed to help the decision making process for surgeons which can be found elsewhere in this section.

Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk

Keywords: Contralateral Mastectomy Risk Reducing Surgery