06.11.2019 | Rebuttal Letter
Risk-reducing mastectomy in BRCA mutation carriers: survival is one of the issues—author's reply
verfasst von:
Bernadette Anna Maria Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Maartje Joanneke Hooning
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
Words can do a lot of harm. One wrong headline in the lay press, shared on social media, can lead to a lot of misery. Misery for the women who underwent preventive breast surgery in the past and now could read in the news that this drastic operation may have been unnecessary. Misery for all dedicated clinicians who had to reassure these women that they had made the right decision, and also frustration for all investigators involved in the original paper who saw their message being framed so wrongly. …