prophylactic
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Doctors specializing in breast reconstruction say they are seeing ever-younger women opting to remove their breasts as a prophylactic measure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Along with routine screening through mammography or MRI, some individuals with inherited genetic mutations that greatly increase breast cancer risk may choose preventive surgery, including prophylactic mastectomy.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
It also announced plans to buy Cidara Therapeutics, which is working on antiviral treatments, including a flu prophylactic in Phase 3, for $9.2 billion.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
But more crucially, American military aid is prophylactic.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025
It is on account of this very insidiousness of onset that I have elsewhere urged as a prophylactic measure the examination every six months of all persons over forty years of age.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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