Risk Reduction Surgery

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The somewhat controversial surgical excision of a tissue, e.g., both breasts and ovaries in a woman at an increased risk of breast cancer, or the colon in a patient with long standing ulcerative colitis, given the high risk of future development of colorectal cancer

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