Angelina Jolie: Mastectomies For Everyone?
Is it for you? If you've just been diagnosed with breast cancer, are you going to opt for the "guaranteed" cure? I say guaranteed because nothing, with cancer, is. But would you take the route Jolie did? With an 87% chance of getting the disease, she made, I believe, the right decision. More and more women are opting for this more drastic approach, even though researchers have found that lumpectomy is often just as effective. More women, also, are choosing to have both breasts removed, even if only one is cancerous. I took this route. At the time, I had a 5-year-old and I wanted to do anything I could to be around him. Looking back, would I have made the same choice, after complications with reconstruction due to lumpectomy and radiation, the first time around? Probably, yes. Cancer strikes such deep fear in all of us. Even though two out of three people now survive cancer, I don't know anyone who doesn't immediately think abou...