What is your opinion of preventative mastectomy?

Risk and age: Combine one's risk with the years of life left to live, then the benefit of prevention is worthwhile. Genetic tests can help determine risk, but before that your family history is also a factor. Will mammography help, some women have dense and hard to screen breasts, combine with high risk and prevention can be life saving...

ExcellentOption4Some: Unfortunately, some women are at such high risk for breast cancer, that at the present time the best means of prevention is to undergo bilateral 'prophylactic' mastectomies. Quite often, these people have watched loved-ones have breast (or ovarian) cancer and have lived with the fear that their cancer was inevitable. Though extreme, this operation often leads to a much better quality of life.