2020 PEA Program Breast Cancer Series - Prophylactic Mastectomy on the Opposite Breast

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Medhavi Gupta, MD

Dr. Gupta is currently a Hematology-Oncology fellow at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.

Dr. Medhavi Gupta, one of the participants in this past year's GRACE Patient Education Ambassador Program, shares a fantastic video series on Breast Cancer.

For this first series, Dr. Gupta discusses Surgical Management in Breast Cancer with Dr. Jessica Young.

In this video, Drs. Gupta and Young discuss surgical management in breast cancer and prophylactic mastectomy on the opposite breast.

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