But studies have shown that women who undergo immediate reconstruction following a mastectomy benefit psychologically.
Importantly, abortion and addiction and HIV-AIDS and love are different issues from preventative mastectomy.
That's important because women falsely diagnosed as a mutation carrier might undergo prophylactic mastectomy unnecessarily.
Denton's physicians decided that she would receive chemotherapy during pregnancy and a mastectomy after the birth.
It's also important to recognize that even a preventive mastectomy is not a guarantee against cancer.
"Integration of those two sides affords a global conversation with the patient before mastectomy, " he says.
Mr Beatie began taking testosterone in 1979 and underwent a double mastectomy in 2002.
After a mastectomy in May and chemotherapy this summer, the sixth-grader went back to school.
In 1983, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and the treatment was a mastectomy.
Meanwhile, CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin announced Tuesday she has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy.
In 1992 her breast cancer came roaring back only two years after she'd had a double mastectomy.
Less than one-fifth of American women who undergo mastectomy currently choose to undergo breast reconstruction.
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Mrs Clarke, who had a mastectomy and has now started hormone treatment, is still waiting for reconstructive surgery.
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At present the options to reduce their risks are limited - a double mastectomy or having their ovaries removed.
Now that Wadsworth is cancer-free and feeling healthy after seven rounds of chemo and a double-mastectomy, her attitude flipped.
Delia Oliveri was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1983 and underwent a mastectomy.
Keighley Clarke, 29, of Sutton-in-Ashfield, had a mastectomy but was not given the proper follow-up treatment because of the faulty tests.
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Those carrying out the trial hope it will reduce the amount of time it takes women to recover from a mastectomy.
I'm not saying that prophylactic mastectomy is the right choice for a woman with BRCA1, simply that it is a reasonable one.
Jolie's relating her decision to have a preventive mastectomy is no more or less brave than Orenstein's decision not to have one.
For those patients, bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction may be the appropriate choice.
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Especially intense while I was undergoing chemo and radiation after my mastectomy.
Gail Boichet had a mastectomy 17 years ago, but a re-examination of her case found that she should not have had the operation.
The procedure, which takes place in the first 48 hours after a mastectomy is being tested on 160 women from Cornwall and Devon.
Miss District of Columbia plans to undergo a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, which killed her mother and grandmother.
Otherwise, no matter how many celebrities and others come courageously forward, and how well the world adapts to preventive mastectomy, it will not be enough.
"Most women with hereditary risk would like an alternative to prophylactic mastectomy, " says Tom Frank , Myriad's medical director and vice president of medical services.
Up to 35% of women who get post-mastectomy reconstructions get infections.
Last month, MD Anderson researchers who analyzed a big Medicare-claims database reported that 4% of women treated with the new technique underwent a mastectomy within five years.
Another woman, from Texas, was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne.
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