Virginia Delucchi, Matteo Lambertini, Eva Blondeaux
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Abstract
We address methodological considerations in evaluating risk-reducing mastectomy among young BRCA carriers with prior history of breast cancer, emphasizing time-dependent analysis, realistic assumptions on mortality and contralateral breast cancer risk, and appropriate confounder adjustment as ways to improve accuracy in survival outcome estimates.