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Double Mastectomy ... By Choice
Topic Started: Mar 9 2010, 07:49 AM (188 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/after-cancer-women-remove-healthy-breast/
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Red Rice
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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.
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!

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PattyP
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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 ample saggy and droopy to walk around so lopsided. And to heck with reconstructive surgery. I've heard that is way more uncomfortable and painful than the mastectomy.

At this age of my life breasts just get in the way, anyway. I don't need 'em anymore. :baby:

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BeeLady
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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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And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread
Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break"
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