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Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Prophylactic Surgery

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Approaches based on surgery have been the mainstay of cancer prevention since the mid-1800s, when medical circumcision was introduced as a strategy for the prevention of penile cancer. Moscucci traces this history by linking the rise of prophylactic cancer surgery with the development of other preventive surgeries such as tonsillectomy. The chapter focuses on the management of cancer risk in women, but it also discusses the role of male circumcision as cancer prevention to raise broader questions about medical attitudes to the body at risk, and about the management of uncertainty in clinical practice.

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Moscucci, O. (2016). Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Prophylactic Surgery. In: Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-60109-7_7

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