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Afraser
6 years agoMember
Just to add - the reasons people don’t want to lose a breast (or both) are many and various. As far as I am concerned, none are ‘better’ than others, it’s a really personal thing . Faced with a relatively large and possibly aggressive tumour, I had little problem in accepting a mastectomy. A partial didn’t seem useful and was possibly less effective. I haven’t found adapting (no reconstruction) difficult. But for others, it’s a profound loss of identity, relieved to an extent by reconstruction. For many, as noted by @jintie, surgery is the painless, easy bit physically, but can be hard emotionally. It may help to analyse exactly what you can’t accept and work out how important that is to you longer term.