I am a licensed physician in U.S.A. Here is the right answer for your question about your mom. this is a very commen case that if one has breast cancer she has much higher risk of breast cancer occur in the other side, so this patient should be on close surveillance so that when it realy happen she still have chance of cure. I hope or if your mom did the surveillance every year after her first breast cancer, she would have much higher chance of cure for the second breast cancer
From license physician in U.S.A.