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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks to all for the concern and sound advice. I just had a mammo three months ago but they said all was fine - EXCEPT I got one of those CYA letters that said my breasts were dense and so they recommended an MRI also. 
A prophylactical mastectomy was recommended to me after my breast surgeon learned about my fam history and the last benign tumor. You folks are perceptive. I am an anxious kind of person. As such, I fear pain and am avoiding the mastectomy. Plus, I worry about all kinds of worst case scenario's. Death, for example. I have very young children who are so attached to me. I'm a SAHM. So I worry about dying during the mastectomy. I know thats paranoid but I always entertain those what if's…

I am a bit of a night owl. I know I should sleep more. But I suffer from insomnia. Regardless, I need to be up when my children wake up, which is relatively early. I tried taking melatonin but heard it could mess with my hormones so I stopped. Without melatonin I don't feel sleep until at least 2 am.

I would like to also talk about how we can prevent breast cancer. Is it true that there's no possible way other than a mastectomy? What about a high antioxidant diet or a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables. I thought studies showed cruciferous vegetables help to elminate excess estrogen from the body and can reduce the risk of cancer.[/quote]

The funny thing about cancer is it is usually has no symptoms or vague symptoms.  Those symptoms can be caused by many things.  In my case, I was tired, my back hurt a bit, and I was losing weight -- 20 lbs over 4 months.  I was 48, and 60 lbs overweight, so weight loss was good, back hurting and tired could be age and weight.  I was going to mention it to my internist, but two years ago, I had another problem that required a CT scan to diagnose.  The CT was negative for my appendix, but found a 6 cm tumor on my kidney.

8 months later, I was shocked to find out that I had a metastasis on my lung, which was removed.  Since then, every weird thing I have felt I assumed was cancer spreading.  But, I have no evidence of disease.

My point is, cancer has a lot of vague symptoms which are shared by a lot of other things.

If you are worried about the brest, get the MRI[/quote]

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