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Prophylactic mastectomy yes or no ...
Hello everybody,
I was diagnosed with invasive lobular cancer last year in July.
Surgery (mastectomy left breast), active treatment (chemo and radiation) is finished - I'm now on Tamoxifen for at...
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Hi Brenda5... whilst I don't think for most woman keeping their unaffected breast is the wrong decision. It isn't a preventative for secondary breast cancer spread from our original site breast cancer. It would just be a potential area for a new primary breast cancer. Doesn't mean it will be.
This link briefly explains the way secondary breast cancer is spread.
https://www.bcna.org.au/secondary-breast-cancer/what-is-secondary-breast-cancer/