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flag Study suggests wide-risk mastectomies could prevent 6,500 UK breast cancer cases yearly.

flag A study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London suggests that offering risk-reducing mastectomies to women aged 30-55 with a 35% or higher lifetime risk of breast cancer could prevent around 6,500 cases annually in the UK. flag Currently, such surgeries are mainly for those with specific genes like BRCA1 or BRCA2. flag The researchers claim this approach is cost-effective but note a lack of long-term quality-of-life data.

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