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If there was a chance you could get breast cancer, would you remove one or both of your breasts to prevent getting the disease? More women are choosing to have preventive mastectomies, but doctors say they aren't for everyone. Preventive mastectomies, also called "prophylactic mastectomies," are only for women at a moderate- or high-risk of getting breast cancer. That means, if you had breast cancer, have a close family member (mother, sister, daughter) who had it or have the breast cancer causing gene, your doctor may offer this surgery as a choice.
But experts agree there is no way to prevent breast cancer. Even these preventive mastectomies aren't 100% certain to keep you cancer-free.
Finding out early and getting care are the best ways to lower the number of deaths caused by this disease. Here are the main types of exams and tests used to find breast cancer.
If something not normal shows up in a clinical breast exam or mammogram, your doctor might do more tests.
Sources: National Cancer Institute , American Cancer Society