Department of Medicine

What Dobbs Means for Patients with Breast Cancer

Written by The New England Journal of Medicine | August 27, 2022

Co-authored by Virginia F. Borges – We are oncologists; we do not perform abortions. And yet the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will harm some of our patients — indeed, the harmful effects will become a reality for all clinicians who care for women of childbearing age.