Contralateral endolymphatic hydrops ID'd in one in four patients with unilateral Meniere disease

For patients with unilateral Meniere disease, endolymphatic hydrops occur in 24.2% of contralateral ears, according to a study published online Feb. 4 in Acta Oto-Laryngologica.
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Bilateral Mastectomy Reduces Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk, but Not Mortality

Treating unilateral breast cancer with a bilateral mastectomy substantially reduced the risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with unilateral mastectomy or lumpectomy, yet not breast cancer ...
Medscape

Prophylactic RT Delays Contralateral Breast Cancer in BRCA Carriers

Prophylactic radiation therapy to the contralateral breast significantly delayed the onset of contralateral breast cancer in carriers of BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants with early breast cancer. The ...
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Prospective Study of Psychosocial Outcomes of Having Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Among Women With Nonhereditary Breast Cancer

Double-Blind Phase III Trial of Adjuvant Chemotherapy With and Without Bevacizumab in Patients With Lymph Node–Positive and High-Risk Lymph Node–Negative Breast Cancer (E5103) These results may ...
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Efficacy of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in Women With a Personal and Family History of Breast Cancer

PURPOSE: To estimate the efficacy of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in women with a personal and family history of breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We followed the course of 745 women with ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

MRI Evaluation of the Contralateral Breast in Women with Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer

Even after careful clinical and mammographic evaluation, cancer is found in the contralateral breast in up to 10% of women who have received treatment for unilateral breast cancer. We conducted a ...

‘Strength without control is incomplete’: Shilpa Shetty throws a contralateral stability drill challenge for stability, inner thigh engagement

"This supine contralateral stability drill challenges core stability, inner thigh engagement and neuromuscular coordination ...
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Bilateral mastectomy reduces risk for contralateral breast cancer, not mortality

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bilateral mastectomy reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer vs. other surgical options. Researchers ...