So sorry to hear this. Could I ask, was your aunt's recurrence local or did the cancer pop up in another area? That is my concern, since I opted for a lumpectomy. And how did your grandmother and great grandmother fare? My PCP had lobular when she was in her 40s (with no family history) and at first had a lumpectomy. But she grew tired of the monitoring and then had a double mastectomy. That was 20 years ago and she is fine. The monitoring, I'm finding, can weigh on me.

I am not sure about lobular breast cancer but I had a single mastectomy. Following a recurrence on the chest wall 2 weeks later I took control of my own health through researching. Apparently in Canada it is the Standard of Care to keep the other breast. My radiologist told me that she has women with single mastectomies begging their doctors to take the other side off because they are scared of cancer on the remaining breast. They tell women with breast cancer that they have a little bit higher chance of 1 in 7 chance of developing breast cancer (same as the general population) if they don’t take off the other side. I lobbied hard for the prophylactic mastectomy and got it. Without the mastectomy my chances. My chances of BC were around 17% with no mastectomy and 5% with the mastectomy. I wonder which one is bigger? Duh? If women had the facts I wonder what they would choose. They told me there was a 20% chance it was in my lymph nodes and I lost that gamble. The medical establishment in Canada should let womem choose and not deciding for them. I was lucky to have flexible people that stretched the “Standard of Care”.