Is that right? Did you really say that?

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend whose mum died many years ago from breast cancer.  My friend went to see a breast surgeon who told her that because she would probably have the BRAC1 gene she shoul have a bilateral mastectomy because she did not have a partner so what use were her breasts? She was horrified but told him that it had taken her 40 years to grow them and she wanted to keep them.