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Women with breast cancer are at a high risk of developing a new primary or metastatic lesion in the contralateral breast (Robbins and Berg 1964; Haagensen 1971; Leis 1980). The magnitude of this risk and the prognostic significance of the occurrence of such lesions, however, remain controversial. Discriminants of predictive value for the development of contralateral malignancies are a matter of debate as well and there is no general agreement on the management of the contralateral breast (Leis 1980; Fisher et al. 1984).
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Nielsen, M., Christensen, L., Dyreborg, U., Andersen, J.A. (1987). Contributions to the Diagnosis of Contralateral Malignancies in Women with Invasive Breast Cancer. In: Brünner, S., Langfeldt, B. (eds) Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82964-2_19
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