What are the considerations in patient selection and timing of risk-reducing mastectomy?

Holly J Pederson¹, Allison W Kurian², Zahraa Al Hilli³

• ¹Director, Medical Breast Services, Cleveland Clinic Breast Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Former Member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Committees for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic pedersh@ccf.org.+2