Should Preventive Mastectomy be among Allowed Treatments for Breast Cancer?
It is one thing to be told you have breast cancer and then to tap into whatever treatments you need to get better. But it’s another thing to be a part of a growing number of women who, having learned about the bad news that they have cancer on one breast, choose to say that they would rather be alive than struggle with vanity.
They choose to have both breasts removed, a double mastectomy, as the ultimate in treatments for breast cancer. Hospitals have found that over the last ten years, the number of women who have been willing to choose this kind of preventive removal, has doubled – to about 5% of all women who come to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
But this at least makes little sense: you’ve seen other women in your family develop breast cancer, and you have a case of it on one breast yourself.
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