When I was diagnosed, two surgeons said mastectomy to the one breast and the chance of getting cancer in the other breast is extremely low. Without much thinking I opted for bilateral mastectomy. I didn’t even want to think and worry later on. I wanted both out. I would take the aggressive measure. It’s overwhelming dealing with cancer once. At least, I want to do my best to not deal with it again. My personal opinion. Guess what, when the pathology report came back, there was cancer in very early stage in the side that didn’t need to be removed.