Preventive Strikes

Author: Ilana Löwy
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 080189364X
Category: Medical

Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery

Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Download Preventive Strikes medical books for free.
Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibility of disease. The striking contrast between the sophistication of diagnosis and the crudeness of preventive surgery forms the basis of historian Ilana LAwy's important study.LAwy traces the history of prophylactic amputations through a century of preventive treatment and back to a long tradition of surgical management of gynecological problems. In the early twentieth century, surgeons came to believe that removing precancerous lesions-a term diff Get Preventive Strikes our bestseller medical books.

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