breast cancer - WWYD

Just curious.
You learn you have breast cancer. A 2.5 cm grade 1 tumour in your right breast. Would you choose lumpectomy or a mastectomy ?

A mastectomy is the whole breast right?

I would get that and the other breast and gets some fake ones

Mastectomy for both. Just to be safe. Some insurances will even pay for implants afterward.

Double mastectomy. Better safe than sorry.

Quoting *Mary Moon*:" Double mastectomy. Better safe than sorry."

this my aunt had it and did this because of the chance of it coming back if she didnt have it removed she still had to have cemo and all.

Quoting DeidreLC:" Mastectomy for both. Just to be safe. Some insurances will even pay for implants afterward."

 

My MIL got her whole right side cut off. But now they said its back again. Still growing so I'd do both.

Double mastectomy. My mom just went through chemo and radiation. She also got a double mastectomy, but only had cancer in one breast. Her reasoning, which I completely agree with, is that she couldn't imagine going through surgery, chemo, and radiation without removing as much risk as humanly possible of cancer ever coming back.

Her new boobs are beautiful, BTW.  

mastectomy, i would still have them do cemo around that breat before or after the mastectomy.
my grandma has BC, my aunt had it twice & my mother had it beat it then it came back and she lost her battle to BC.
im scared smurfless that i will get BC so i will be one of thoese that will try to get checked before the recommended age

Quoting ☠BryBry's MuM☠:" mastectomy, i would still have them do cemo around that breat before or after the mastectomy. my grandma ... [snip!] ... BC. im scared smurfless that i will get BC so i will be one of thoese that will try to get checked before the recommended age"

Im sorry you lost your mom  
I hate cancer, really really hate it.

They say moms to kids with the cancer my son had are more likely to get breast cancer----wonderful

Quoting A Beautiful Disaster:" Im sorry you lost your mom   I hate cancer, really really hate it. They say moms to kids with the cancer my son had are more likely to get breast cancer----wonderful"

thank you! she passed 11-7-03 just shy of her 49th bday nov 15th.
i hate it so much to!

wait can you explain that again please?
i heard you can get tested to see if you have the breast cancer gene. oddly my aunt got tested after she had it the second time and she doesnt have the gene.
she thinks that we dont have it but i should get tested!

Quoting ☠BryBry's MuM☠:" thank you! she passed 11-7-03 just shy of her 49th bday nov 15th. i hate it so much to! wait ... [snip!] ... tested after she had it the second time and she doesnt have the gene. she thinks that we dont have it but i should get tested!"

My son had rhabdomyosarcoma which is a tumour of the soft muscle tissue, like breast cancer is. For some unknown reason a lot of the mothers of children with rhabdo have breast cancer there may or may not be a link.

Yes, you can get gene testing done....we had the option to test our son. There is little understand to rhabdo, why it happens, where it comes from, how to cure it. So testing our son for the P53 gene was an option, we finally decided to do it after he was cancer free, to help the research. But our oncologist gave us some good information....including - do we want to live knowing he has it and will most likely get cancer again? As well as showing us that if he does come back with gene, we may never be able to get him life insurance (we havent been able to all his life due to the cancer - our agent is hoping after 5 years cancer free he may be able to get us some).

So really...its a very tense decision with a lot of factors coming into play. As much as we want to help research.....we decided the risks to our lives was too severe.

Ugh...that sounds so selfish

Quoting ☠BryBry's MuM☠:" mastectomy, i would still have them do cemo around that breat before or after the mastectomy. my grandma ... [snip!] ... BC. im scared smurfless that i will get BC so i will be one of thoese that will try to get checked before the recommended age"

Just so you know, you can get checked to see if you cary the gene that causes breast cancer. It's called the BCRA gene, and if that many women in your family had it, there's a pretty good chance that insurance will cover the test. I had it done because my mom had breast cancer and we are of Jewish descent which raises our chances of carrying the gene. Thankfully, I tested negative. I was planning on getting a preventative double mastectomy if I tested positive.

Quoting A Beautiful Disaster:" My son had rhabdomyosarcoma which is a tumour of the soft muscle tissue, like breast cancer is. For ... [snip!] ... play. As much as we want to help research.....we decided the risks to our lives was too severe. Ugh...that sounds so selfish "

I don't think that is selfish at all. I can absolutely understand not wanting to live in fear for the rest of your life.

Quoting Asher's mommy [Expecting :" Just so you know, you can get checked to see if you cary the gene that causes breast cancer. It's called ... [snip!] ... the gene. Thankfully, I tested negative. I was planning on getting a preventative double mastectomy if I tested positive. "

yes i know i mentioned my aunt was tested to see if he has the gene & that i want to do it as well. thank you! =)
how much does the test typically cost?
im 28 do you think they will do it right now bc of my family history? i think i need to make a call to get this done!