The second leading reasons of death among women are breast cancer. World Health Organization announced that more than 1 million women this year will be identified to have breast cancer. Women who are at most risk of having cancer like for example that it runs on their family, merely the fact can create a life long anxieties and worries that someday you'll experience and undergo the same suffering. This will leave these probable victims to choose to lessen the chance of acquiring the illness by having a prophylactic mastectomy. This is a procedure wherein the breasts will be removed which most potential sufferers are reluctant to undergo.

Another preference for women who have high potentials of having breasts cancer is to opt for a breast reduction. Most women in the areas of United States, Denmark, Sweden and Canada would choose to undergo this procedure and studies have shown that it may reduce the risk of cancer from 50 - 70%.

The study has proven that the larger breast tissue amount that a potential breast cancer patient has the larger the chance that these cells will turn cancerous and if they are removed the lesser chance that it will become cancerous.

Prophylactic mastectomy may lessen the risk of getting breast cancer on women by 90%, though; it cannot guarantee to prevent the 100% development of cancer even if the breasts are entirely removed. Breast reduction can extremely lessen the probability of acquiring cancer and would let the ladies to keep their breasts which are better option.