Preventive Mastectomy

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Please shed some light on the importance of preventive mastectomy in cases of strong family history of Breast Cancer . If a person does not want to go for a preventive removal, how often should one get checked? What all tests or precautions would you suggest?

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In our country it is not generally adviced.clinical examination every 3months by an oncologist and appropriate tests adviced by the oncologist should be done.

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