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Pre-emptive surgery.
02 February 2012 , 1:34 PM by Christopher Welsh
Did you hear the story of a few women who are choosing to have Ovaries removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer.
It made me wonder what other surgical procedures are people choosing to avoid the possibility of serious illness or disease.
I have heard of pre-emptive mastectomies but are there similar procedures men are electing to have and does it work?
From the AMAQ Dr Gino Pecoraro explains.
After that talk we had a call from Sharn who is in this exact situation.
She is now confronted with the decision whether to wait and see if she develops breast cancer, or have a double mastectomy because her chances of getting the cancer are so high....
I spoke with Sharn and asked how many of her relatives had developed breast or ovarian cancer
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