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Breast Cancer | Last Active: 2 days ago | Replies (9)
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@billiemoore I am sorry, I misunderstood. I get it now. I did not have a mastectomy, but frankly I wished I had. I in fact wanted one. I did have chemo, radiation and endocrine therapy. I felt like I did everything possible to stop it. I did not have DCIS. I had invasive, but everyone’s cancer is different and every one has different priorities for quality of life.
Do you have the option of making whichever choice suits your life?
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@auntieoakley no worries, sort of complex. I had invasive—now gone. They found DCIS only after I started surgeries.
We all have an option—doctors simply give recommendations and we decide the route. Mastectomy is a full amputation and that along with reconstruction are complex surgeries but cancer is also complex, unpredictable (no matter how much science is applied) and hard to know the future.
If radiation didn’t make future reconstruction should a reoccurrence occur, would be a much easier choice for me, as I would make every effort to keep my breast, nipples and not be paralyzed for life until it was necessary.