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Gossip Girl's Jessica Queller Discusses Her Double Mastectomy Decision
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Pretty Is What Changes: A Community Poll
What would you do if you learned that you had an 87 percent chance of developing cancer? This is the question that Jessica Queller, the author of a book called Pretty Is What Changes, faced in her early thirties, after testing positive for the BRCA-1 gene, or "breast cancer gene." Queller chose a double mastectomy. What would you do?
Survivors On Double Mastectomy
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Failing As Usual: Double Mastectomies and "Choices" In Breast Cancer TreatmentI am one of those women who chose to have a double mastectomy when a single mastectomy may have sufficed. -
More Women Opting for Double Mastectomy: Is It Justified?A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports that the number of women opting for double mastectomies (when a single mastectomy was indicated) more than doubled between 1998 and 2003, from 4.2% to 11%.
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