June 15, 2017. Thank you to the FDA and the Safe Use Team for hosting this meeting and for the opportunity to share our perspective. I’m Dr. Megan Polanin, and I am a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Health Research.
When Angelina Jolie publicly announced her double mastectomy in 2013, she was praised for possibly saving many women’s lives. But we know more today than we did then and experts now agree that too many women are undergoing unnecessary mastectomies. Here are the facts.
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