Dear All, I was diagnosed with breast cancer one year ago, with half breast spread and armpit affected, peaux d'orange, imflamed breast....a 100 percent mastectomy after all the books but... Luckily a true breast specialist was around and pushed for neoadjuvant chemo treatment hoping to shrink the tumour to a level where it can be operated with clean margins or in the best case a lumpectomy. After the treatment I was found completely clean therefore I did not need any kind of surgical intervention. It was sad that even with these results confirmed by biopsies, pet scan some still wanted to remove my breast out if caution? I don't understand why mastectomy is so inflicted as an options, treatments are so good, for some cancer types neo adjuvant chemo alone gives patologic complete response for 60 percent of cases. Why thinking about nipple reconstruction when you can keep your breast? It is a great book on the market in Australia writen for us "Breast Cancer Taking Control", you will find so much information you need for having control of your treatment not inly some surgeon who knows how to cut.
