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While there’s no comprehensive data charting prophylactic mastectomies among young people, some surgeons described shifts that have led to changes in their patient demographics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The RCS team revealed cancers that were missed, mastectomies that may not have been necessary, incidents of chemotherapy not being offered and surgery undertaken to remove lymph nodes when not clinically necessary.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

“That means unnecessary mastectomies, radiotherapy and chemotherapy,” she writes.

From Salon • May 13, 2025

Those lumpectomies and mastectomies are essentially “fear-ectomies” that remove something frightening but not medically threatening.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2024

On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides