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    posted 04/02/2008, comments (7)

    Choosing Double Mastectomy Before You Even Have Cancer - Jessica Queller's Decision

        A few weeks ago my friend who is the publisher of a new division of Random House sent me an amazing book she's publishing: PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied my Destiny by Jessica Queller.   I opened the book and took a quick look at it, thinking I'd put it aside until I... Read moreChevron
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    Pretty is What Changes - Jessica Queller's Decision to Have a Prophylactic Double Mastectomy

    Early yesterday morning, I got an email from one of the heads of my company (big, burly guy) saying I had to listen to this radio broadcast about breast cancer and young women.   It's the NPR interview of Jessica Queller, the author of Pretty is What Changes, a book that came out yesterday and chronicles Jessica's decision to have a... Read moreChevron
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    posted 02/08/2008, comments (2)

    Failure is a Relative Term

    My post the other day about how it seems women can't win when it comes to deciding on a treatment plan - that we're essentially "failing" at this very early stage of our unplanned journey through Cancerland because we either pick surgery that is overkill (mastectomies over lumpectomies) or underkill (lumpectomies over... Read moreChevron
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    posted 02/06/2008, comments (12)

    Failing As Usual: Double Mastectomies and "Choices" In Breast Cancer Treatment

    I read with great interest yesterday's front page Washington Post article about the increase in women opting for double mastectomies when lumpectomies might suffice. And I'm writing this post because I am one of those women who made a similar choice -- to have a double mastectomy when a single mastectomy may have sufficed and because there... Read moreChevron
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    posted 02/05/2008, comments (2)

    On Choosing Radical Cancer Surgery (Elective Double Mastectomy in Today's Washington Post)

    An article in today's Washington Post, "Choosing Radical Cancer Surgery," focuses on the increasing predilection of women with breast cancer to have a mastectomy, rather than a lumpectomy; or a double mastectomy, rather than a single. This opting for more invasive, radical surgery, when health-care professionals are recommending far less surgery,... Read moreChevron
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