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| Double Mastectomy ... By Choice | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 9 2010, 07:49 AM (188 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | Mar 9 2010, 07:49 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/after-cancer-women-remove-healthy-breast/ |
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| Red Rice | Mar 9 2010, 08:00 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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IIRC, lobular breast cancer is one where women are offered the choice of double mastectomy, because of the high risk of bilateral disease. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| PattyP | Mar 9 2010, 09:00 AM Post #3 |
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Senior Carp
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It's something I've considered. If the breast cancer ever reoccured in the same breast I've had the lumpectomy in I'd have to have a mastectomy, or so the surgeon told me. I would seriously consider a double mastectomy at that point. I'm too At this age of my life breasts just get in the way, anyway. I don't need 'em anymore.
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A tired dog is a good dog. "Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really." A.S. Turnbull | |
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| BeeLady | Mar 9 2010, 09:09 AM Post #4 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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I have identical twin aunts. One had breast cancer, survived 5 years then died at age 55. Her twin was checked and had precancerous cells so she thought nothing of having a double mastectomy. She is alive, a happy healthy grandmother now who misses her sister. |
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"My wheel shall sing responsive to my tread, And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break" "Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets by Mary Ashley Townsend" 1895 | |
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