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Preventative mastectomy?
Hello everyone, On New Year’s Eve, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast
cancer. I have a fast-growing, triple-negative tumour in my left breast that
had spread to my lymph nodes. It requires six mont...
What a terrible time to be diagnosed 🙁, not that it’s ever really a good time. I’m not sure what to say in terms of having the right one off too. A lot of women believe it doesn’t make any difference. Then again, lots of women get it in the other breast a few years later. I had lumps in both breasts simultaneously, so I didn’t think too much about having a double mastectomy. I did have expanders put in at my surgeon’s suggestion, which I’m yet to have exchanged for implants. If you’re the kind to worry a lot, maybe it’s better to have both off, just for piece of mind.