Decision time - lumpectomy or masectomy?
It's been quite a interesting three weeks or so for me. An inflamed breast, biopsy, inconclusive results, surgical biopsy and today a diagnosis of high grade intaductal carcinoma with prominent atropi...
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Hi there terrie like all the girls above its a really personal choice I had L side stage 2a triple neg with no lymph node involvement may last year and could of had either lumpectomy with radiation and chemo or mastectomy and chemo. I only had little titties so decided on the mastectomy as I thought going through the chemo is enough didn't want the radiation as well. have also taken the Right boob off nov 28 as a preventative. No family history for me either and I'm 44. Read about quite a few women getting a new cancer in their other boob 3 5 or 10 years later and just didn't want to deal with that. Just piece of mind for me. Still no guarantees of course of recurrence somewhere else, but thankfully my risk is low but this decision made me feel better and ive also chosen not to have the reconstruction as I simply don't want any more surgery. I'm totally comfortable with this decision and don't feel less like a woman because of it either. But it is a very personal choice and one you need to be comfortable with. Best of luck whatever decision you make. Margie :)