Life After Preventive Mastectomy
New insights reveal how high-risk women fare after removing healthy breasts
By Kyla Dunn
CR | Page No. 30 | Winter 2009
Like many women diagnosed with breast cancer or at high risk of the disease, actress Christina Applegate
faced the question of whether to have a pre-emptive mastectomy. Research is now accumulating about
women’s physical and emotional well-being after the surgery.
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