Open AccessIranian women's attitude toward prophylactic mastectomy for breast cancer
Author(s) -
Keivan MajidzadehA,
Leila Farahmand,
Ali Zare,
Rezvan Esmaeili,
Mina Salehi,
Masoud Habibi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.171363
Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , prophylactic mastectomy , family history , mastectomy , cancer , gynecology , prophylactic surgery , family medicine , population , oncology , obstetrics , environmental health
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Science has already proved that some breast cancer genes are inherited from parents. It is generally believed that the probability of cancer diagnosis in carriers of those genes is considerably higher than the normal population. It is in the same direction that modern medicine has introduced prophylactic mastectomy - one of the key preventive methods which is the focus of the present research. Nevertheless, whether women that have been diagnosed with breast cancer would take this approach depends on their local culture and their set of beliefs. In this regard, the present research was meant to evaluate the acceptability rate of prophylactic mastectomy among women in Iran after they are informed of the positive genetic test results.