Science briefs: Rise in optional mastectomies

Updated: January 26, 2013 - 4:29 PM

In the 1970s, women's health advocates were highly suspicious of mastectomies. They argued that surgeons -- in those days, pretty much an all-male club -- were far too quick to remove a breast after a diagnosis of cancer, with disfiguring results.

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