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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, skeptical PP, I wish you had been less abrasive, but you really ought to understand that by the time you "see or feel" evidence of either a breast or ovarian malignancy, you're in for devastating treatment at the very least (in addition to disfiguring surgery that's coming anyway) if not a miserable death. No one will make you have prophylactic surgery, but it is unwise to lump (ha!) radiologists in with the doctors you don't trust.

I agree with another PP who pointed out that fully reconstructed boobs offer a better aesthetic result than lumpectomies. It also sounds to me like radiation treatments take an aesthetic toll, not to mention the protracted hell of chemotherapy. If mutilation is coming, it is best for it to come under the most controlled circumstances possible.[/quote]

The think is that you'll never know for sure.

BTW, my cousin just found out after 4 years of pain that the source of his unbearable pain (getting morphine shots once a week from his mom who's a nurse) was a bunch of stones in his gall bladder that doctors and radiologists have been missing since 2006.

There's no way I'll let them cut me open if I don't need to.[/quote]

Right on, PP.  Who needs research and science when you can base a critically important decision on some random (and frankly unrelated) anecdote about your cousin?  [/quote]

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